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Old 11-05-2013, 05:30 PM   #9 (permalink)
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By lowering the car at the spindle, it allows your compression alignment to stay how it was designed. Lowering with just coilovers messes up your baseline control arm angles and your compression alignment becomes extremely aggressive and exaggerated.

I have been meaning to make billet front drop spindles for my Z for a long time... its something I was hoping to get to this winter. I am not going to bother making a custom arm and tie rod setup for it... I am not personally in it that deep... I just want my front alignment acting proper again.

One thing to consider for some of you.. a lowered drop spindle may require new wheels if you are not able to "retract" your wheel base enough. By getting your baseline control arm angle back where it belongs will widen your wheel base, and your compression camber is going to be reduced quite a bit. if you are running on the verge of hellaflush, than your going to hit your fenders when the tops of the tires dont pull in nearly as much on compression. But if you have fully adjustable upper and lower arms, you can hopefully pull the entire spindle in enough to avoid this. Its also entirely possible that a billet spindle like this could be faced to set the wheel bearing in deeper if someone found their offsets too aggressive for the new setup... but this would also require facing the brake caliper mount equally.

This is a large part to machine and thats a lot of time in the CNC. I am jealous that someone beat me to it.

i am EXTREMELY curious to see what price they will ask for these.
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