my shiny x lca's showed up today.



i was worried, as when i layed the 9 arm on top of the x arm they looked damn near the same. broke out the tape measure and the half inch or so becomes quickly obvious.


so since there some engineer types in here, i wanna run my idea y you guys. a quick/dirty way to adapt the steering arms.

as seen in the picture below, the length of the balljoint my finger is on is fully threaded internally. how bad would it be to cut that off a set of balljoints to use as a coupling nut? im thinking grab some higher grade threaded rod from mcmaster, have a small section coming out of the balljoint to the home made coupling nut which then connects to the steering arm. thsi way im using materials that i know are meant to deal with the loads seen at that position.

 

I wouldn't reccomend it because the length of thread engagement you'd have would be minimal on both ends and still not give you enough room to play with.

There was a website i came across recently that sells a lot of stuff to circle track idiots that sold threaded female rods. Do a search for female couplers or whatnot. I don'ot think you'll have to do anything custom.

something along the lines of this

http://www.speedwaymotors.com/Swedge...Heim,2092.html

BTW i'm gonna be making a tie rod shank real soon..... so maybe it would be worthwhile for you to hang out for a bit while i make one. It'll be better than the one that comes with the whiteline rck as it'll be longer and adjustable. The linked product above + a 20 dollar male rod end and an adjustable shank and you've got yourself a cheap and unbeatable setup to manage your bump steer.

 

LOL, circle track idiots.

 

im not really after more adjustability, but im interested to see what you come up with.

the useable section that could be cut off the tie rod is about 1.5 inches, i was thinking a half inch of fine thread on either side would potentially be ok. take a look back at the pics i posted from full-race geoff's car he utilized a section of a stock tie rod somehow which is where i got the idea...it really doesnt look like the tie rod needs to be much more than an inch longer.

 

If anyone else is looking for them I have a set of evo x lca's with PSRS and rck available.

 

what's the advert effect of increasing front track width and not increasing the rear.

 

Read these. Better explains what I was trying to explain to you the other night.

http://www.iwsti.com/forums/gd-gener...ack-width.html


https://www.evolutionm.net/forums/mo...ont-track.html

 

so im about to tackle this job. i still havent fully sorted what im going to do about the tie rods, i still think my idea of using a section of old tie rod is pretty decent.

someone was nice enough to send me pictures of robi's modified ones, and as far as i can tell he welds on a maybe a 1 inch long coupling nut (or at least what looks like one) but i have spent hours searching online and cant find a useable coupling nut. i did however find m14x1.5 threaded rod at grainger, but all i can find is m14x2 nuts...is the thread definitely m14x1.5?

any of you engineers/fab guys have any sources?

 

check out boltdepot.com

THey've got great prices on a HUGE variety of hardware. Shipping isn't cheap, but you also have to consider your shipping chunks of steel

Edit: i don't know what the thread is but m14 sounds right. If that's the case, then bolt depot may not work Measure the diameter of the rod with some calipers or something.

https://www.boltdepot.com/Metric_cou...8.8_steel.aspx

 

Stock steering rod is M14x1.5

 

Scratch that, I think I found a pretty solid solution. As far as I can tell gm trucks use m14x1.5 steering rid as well.

http://www.roughcountry.com/gm-tie-r...eves-1144.html

I'll run a short piece of rod into the tierod and then cut a small section out of that sleeve so it will mate to the steering rod.

 

solution?

https://www.rallysportdirect.com/par...be-nut-m14x1-5

 

not sure. it looks like it may be long enough to grab enough threads on either end. im waiting for my pieces to get here from rough country and we'll see. right now i cant get my dman tie rods knocked outta the hub.

 

Oh, i was thinking about doubling up two of those on a small piece of 4130 tube. They're made to weld on tubes and such.

 

Ah, you have to spell these things out for me I'm not an engineer lol