Re: [DML] Rob Grady's Personal Lower Suspension

["content22207" <brobertson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Only the outer portion of the OEM LCA was used.

Which does bring up a weakness in the design: it is still subject to failure at the end (more common than you'd expect -- it happened to a European owner just before the old DMCTalk site went down, Byrne has several pics of the failure on his website, and this owner recently posted pics of his failure: http://www.discordia.org/~jason/lowercontrolarm.jpg).

Note also that James Espy told me at DMA FFT'11 he has seen OEM LCA's that won't hold onto their first replacement ball joint (the OEM ball joint pad is very thin).

On a related note: I received another eMail that a certain English owner who argued vociferously for the OEM design and against upgrading it to a pseudo lower wishbone is actually working on true lower wishbone himself. Curious indeed.

I've also received word that one of the owners who drove my car at DMA FFT'11 has ordered components for himself. As Rob and a certain English owner can attest, anyone who has ever driven an upgraded lower front suspension will never go back to OEM.

Bill Robertson
#5939

--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Marc Levy <malevy_nj@...> wrote:
>
> Seems obvious that an upper arm was cut and attached to the lower arm..
> 
> BTW, I thought I posted the link to these photos a week or so ago?  I guess it did not get sent out?
> 
> 
> --- On Tue, 11/8/11, content22207 <brobertson@...> wrote:
> 
> > From: content22207 <brobertson@...>
> > Subject: [DML] Rob Grady's Personal Lower Suspension
> > To: dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Date: Tuesday, November 8, 2011, 12:10 PM
> > A kind soul just pointed me to these
> > pics of Rob Grady's personal LCA's (10,000 points to the
> > first person who figures out how they were made):
> > http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/317417_271401022905155_100001057778755_832024_2077365710_n.jpg
> > http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/377163_271400979571826_100001057778755_832023_459186805_n.jpg
> > http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/377059_271400929571831_100001057778755_832022_999504283_n.jpg
> > http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/s720x720/313027_271400872905170_100001057778755_832020_829589403_n.jpg
> > 
> > Obviously Rob's LCA's have no fore/aft movement whatsoever,
> > which should to lay to rest once & for ever fears that
> > lower wishbones will rip the sway bar off the crumple
> > extension (anyone who has ever stood one on end and flexed
> > it knew that argument was a Red Herring all along -- the
> > sway bar is bendy as can be, which makes it totally
> > unsuitable to serve as a backwards thrust arm).
> > 
> > Bill Robertson
> > #5939
> > 
> > 
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