You are very correct in worrying about the effects of changing one thing and what it does to many other areas in the car. With the importance of the front end set-up as far as handling and safety is concerned this is no area for a novice to dabble in. You must consider all static and dynamic conditions and handling limits, all of the critical suspension settings and so forth. Very few of us have the expertise, time and money to go into a development plan for something so complex. You could earn a college degree by the time you have learned and understood what goes into a suspension system. Just changing the ride height,a seeming minor change, affects ALL of the critical front end settings including suspension travel (which no one seems to worry about!). The front suspension was designed by some of the top people in the automotive engineering world and it STILL had a recall to correct a major problem. The front suspension as it is is pretty good it is just that besides normal wear and tear the arms get damaged by tow truck operaters. I don't think a redesign is what's needed here, all we need is a good source for replacement parts. This is not a case of a badly designed part although I am sure someone will redesign it anyway. Look up [unsprung weight] when you are over designing suspension parts and don't forget what happens when you try to stop the car and the front wheels are trying to move foward while transferring all of the braking forces into the body (and this is just going straight and level). David Teitelbaum vin 10757 --- In dmcnews@xxxx, "B Benson" <delornut@xxxx> wrote: > No one mentions the effects of caster, camber, or toe-in and if,in the DeLorean suspension,it changes under load. Modifying anything here may require changes elsewhere, shock dampening, spring compression rates, and so on. Different chassis setups react differently to even minor changes in any of these items. In racing it can take miles of track time to dial in a new suspension to make it react properly. I agree that the lower control arm could use some improvment but it takes a great deal of experiance to know exactly what will work and what won't. I think we have a pretty intelligent group but I wonder if