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Old February 23rd 2008, 12:37
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Awesome to see someone else heading the A-arm route!!! I'm thinking that is an early prototype though, it's got some SERIOUS issues. For example, they've got the input shaft for the steering rack on the wrong side!!!

Joking aside, I do wonder about a few of things, the inner tie rods angle, the lack of adjustability beside the stock eccentric, they've not shown the parts to connect it to the steering column(which is a challenge itself!), the cups for the top balljoints are going to fill with water and debris and become a rust nightmare-especially in the UK, and the rear cross brace is made of flat plate, which isn't up for the loads of that position and isn't anywhere as strong as simple tubing, but weighs more.

I'm just excited some more development is being made in this direction, eventually we are all going to end up with a low weight, relatively low cost, high strength option to get away from trailing arm front ends!

Here's what's available for purchase on our side of the pond:

Eyeball-Engineering

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