Looking at the pictures of my stock LCAs they look aligned and level. What do you think of them?

 

I suggest you measure the heights of the chassis-side and axle-side pivot bolt centers. Pictures can be deceiving; it looks like the passenger side LCA is inclined upward going toward the axle, as does the driver side LCA. But the front of the driver side LCA is too obscured to tell with any certainty where its chassis-side bolt is.


You really want to measure these heights with somebody sitting in the driver seat or with a bunch of barbell weights standing in for your weight. It makes a difference, and you might as well measure the car up the way it would be when you drive it.


Norm

 

I agree with norm on the pictures but its hard to tell

 

Hi Norm, your comment makes sense. Which brand/type of LCA & relos are you using?

 

For LCAs I have some made by Currie (I think they called them something like 'Currectrac'). Pretty beefy units with Johnny-joints on the axle ends and poly bushings at the other. I tweaked the poly ends a little to permit freer rotation and reduced "bind". What's kind of funny is that the only place that listed them specifically was the same small GM intermediate-oriented business that I'd had some dealings with earlier, when I was modifying a '79 Malibu.

My car is still on its OE springs and not using relo brackets of any sort. Some measurements I made quite a long time ago put the axle pivot centers 3/8" higher than the chassis-side pivot centers.

If I try hard enough, it'll wheel-hop on a soaking-wet road from a roll in 1st gear, but I've only done that a couple of times when trying to determine how effective my car's TC was (it was absolutely worthless in that situation). I have no comparable dry weather data, sorry.


Norm