Full billet drop knuckle

Apollo8642

Chris Forsberg Just posted this up on facebook.


Here's the first prototype! Full billet drop knuckle for the Nissan 370Z. Dual shear LCA and tie rod mounts.
Stop by the @voodoo13usa booth 24965 to see it for yourself.
Not to mention our fully adjustable LCA and UCA kit to go with it! 350Z kit coming soon!

Rusty

Woo!

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SPOHN

Sending debit info now.

I saw when he posted these in the CNC. His car is bad a$$

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martin82

This is what I got from Chris

Hello Martin,

Yes there is a lot that can be benefitted from our spindle in a road racing application. The kit uses rod ends at each joint for precise handling and feedback through the front wheels. The drop spindle lowers the car 1" without effecting the suspension geometry, and lastly the control arm kit is fully adjustable which will allow you to adjust the camber, track width, and caster with the lower control arm, and then finer adjustment in camber and caster with the upper control arm.

Thank you for the interest

Chris

IGoFast1589

Very cool... Totally unnecessary with how I use my car, but nevertheless a very cool bit.

GSS138

I don't even know what it is but if it can lower the CG by 1" and not mess with geometry it's a big deal.

Can someone explain what it is and how it works?

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IGoFast1589

It's the piece that carries the hub for the wheel and attaches to the upper and lower control arms. Basically it just moves the positioning of the hub and effectively lowers your car. When you drop the car with a lowering spring it messes up your geometry and alters the travel of your suspension so this is a really proper piece. I'd imagine it's also lighter, reducing unsprung weight, and stronger as well giving a really nice feeling of control over the front end of the car. Adjustability of camber, caster and all that good stuff is also a really nice feature.

Sh0velMan

It's a new spindle with the wheel hub situated 1 inch higher than the stock spindle. (thus lowering the car itself 1 inch)

Not sure that I'd want this without some sort of similar arrangement in the back, but who knows?

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phunk

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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synolimit

^^^Well seeing how everything is overpriced when only one person makes something for a car, I'm going with more then we can afford.

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phunk

in machine time and material... they are worth well over a grand EACH side. However, with many automotive performance parts, if your customers aren't driving GT-R's or Lambos, you cannot charge what the part is really worth or nobody could afford it.

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SPOHN

A little off topic but what's the purpose of inverted coilovers that I have seen on the Doran car?

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phunk

I dont know for sure but I always figured it was about reducing un-sprung weight.

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Sh0velMan

Reduces unsprung weight by anchoring the heavy part of the coilover to the chassis, also puts the part with the seals, gasses and oil somewhere where it isn't an inch or two from a hot rotor.

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Apollo8642

More pics.

Chris Forsberg's NOS Energy Drink Hankook USA Nissan 370Z is officially on display with our prototype drop spindle and adjustable control arms at the Voodoo13 booth. Stop by and check out the beginnings of the greatest angle kit ever developed for the Z chassis!