Npetric's A-arm Baja....Maybe someday it will be finished

[npetric]

Here are a few more pics from our (kraut and me) a-arm set up on my baja. Got it all welded then tacked to the car now we just have to make sure everything is straight so we can weld it on for good in its new home!! What ya doing this weekend Brandon? We can almost push your car around making motor noises!!!

[Leatherneck]

Great pics, what size tubing and wall thickness are you using? What other welds etc. are you going to do to the place to secure it? What shocks are you planning on? Sorry for all the questions but " I gots to know"

[npetric]

Its all 1.5 some .095 some .120. I will weld it to the end of the frame horn and in the second pic you can see the 2 top tubes go thru the plate..that will turn up to a cross brace. I am also going to run off the tubes from the a-pillars to the front bumper area. As for the shocks I am going to try out the new rancho coilovers. Unfortunatelly thet are not rebuildable but they were cheap enough I can upgrade later and swap over spings.

[rickosuave1987]

Looks pretty good.

How much travel do you think youll be pulling?
What are you running out back?
And how cheap is cheap for those shocks?

[Kraut_n_Rice]

Here are a few more pics from our (kraut and me) a-arm set up on my baja. Got it all welded then tacked to the car now we just have to make sure everything is straight so we can weld it on for good in its new home!! What ya doing this weekend Brandon? We can almost push your car around making motor noises!!!

Well, I better be showing up at your house early Saturday to have a major baja session! I have all the adapters to mount the steering wheel so we could give my car a tow around the block, w/o brakes!

As far as the rear of Nick's car, it is using 3x3s (similar to the Beanie boy kit), Empi type disc brakes, 930s, and an 091 bolted to his 3.0. IIRC, the Ranchos were around 2 bills a piece.


edit: does that make anyone else a little chubby..?..

[oneUPfabrication]

hey dude the setup looks awsome! what's up with the hole in the tunnel inside the car? how you setting castor? the arms look like their setting level on the mounts, you didn't mount them at a 10* angle? I'm going to mount my arm the same way but instead of the 1/4 plate I'm going to I'm going to build it like a bulk head but with the face of the bulk head mounted at th 10* angle and just bracing here and there. all I need is the heims and misalignments so I know how far the a arm mounts show be apart. what size heims arms did you use for the inside pivits? 7/8? and fr the spindle 3/4?

[Kraut_n_Rice]

The plate is flush with the bulkhead, but the whole section is tipped up a few degrees giving rake. The castor will be set with the heims on the upper arms. All heims are 3/4".

[ellobo]

Do yourself a favor...Truss, Box or Gussett that lower arm....



Espesially if it's Mild steel. My Prototype failed after a hefty hit and you're sticking out way farther. But this made me think again. PM me if you want some simple solutions....

[npetric]

The whole section is tilted up 7*, its kind of hard to tell b/c the car is actually sitting downhill.
Ellobo..We are planning on boxing in some of the lower arm, just havent gotten there yet. I just had to hang em on there to see what its gonna look like!!! I am open to any suggestions.

1up.. the hole in the tunnel was there when I bought the car the PO must have had someproblem with throttle cable or something??? Thats why we have welders though!!

[oneUPfabrication]

do you know the measurment of the space where your upper arms mount? (the gap from the heims and misalignments)? also the gap on your spindle where your heim mounts? i m workin on mine here at work and I didn't bring the heims or misalignments with me (stupid me) I'm using all 3/4 heims. I wrote down all the right measurments but again I forgot those to

[DesertGuy]

also the gap on your spindle where your heim mounts? i m workin on mine here at work and I didn't bring the heims or misalignments with me (stupid me) I'm using all 3/4 heims.

The ones that I use measure 1 15/16th. There is always an option of spacing them 2 inches which allows using a washer for final adjustment.

[Geargrinder65]

Hw much wer the Ranchos ? And where?

[npetric]

Well kraut and I got some more done today..on both cars. They both are standing without jackstands!!! Sorry for the horrible pics (wife has the camera and is out of town til tomorrow) but I took a couple with the cell phone cam.
Still have some work to do but we called it quits after 12 hours of playing.

[rickosuave1987]

IIRC, the Ranchos were around 2 bills a piece.

Either of you guys know where you got them from? I cant seem to find them for less than $400 a piece.

[npetric]

When they first came out last year they were selling them for 225.00 but I now see that they have made it up to 400.00 on summit as well. I guess they figured they were selling too cheap. Glad I got mine when I did. When I found them by accident on ranchos website they were still being developed and didnt have any to sell. I called rancho up direct and put in my order, they wouldnt sell to me b/c i wasnt in their computer, but one of my customers is, so they got them for me...4 months later I had shocks!