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Upper Control Arm interest?

I am in the process of having some adjustable upper control arms made for the 86 T-Bird and was wondering if there was any interest in a set of these. They will have Spherical rods ends with teflon inner coating. The Adjustable link is painted or powder coated steel. These are set up for 1/2 inch diameter grade 8 bolts on the rod end side and 1/2 diameter or factory on the other end. I am getting one set made for myself for sure so let me know if there is an interest and I may be able to get some more made.


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$$$ ???
'88 Sport--T-5,MGW shifter,Trick Flow R intake,Ed Curtis cam,Trick Flow heads,Scorpion rockers,75mm Accufab t-body,3G,mini starter,Taurus fan,BBK long tube headers,O/R H-Pipe, Flowamaster Super 44's, deep and deeper Cobra R wheels, Mass Air and 24's,8.8 with 3.73's,140 mph speedo,Mach 1 chin spoiler,SN-95 springs,CHE control arms,aluminum drive shaft and a lot more..

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Reply #2
I don't think I can beat the CHE price of $135 a set because I just don't have the quanity to bring the price down but $175-200 will be about the price depending on power coat and machine labor costs. This is about the price of upper control arms of this design such as edelbrock uppers for the mustangs on summit racing so considering the small amount of quanity here the price is pretty reasonable.

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Reply #3
Here is my completed upper control arms ready for sand blasting and powder coat.




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Reply #4
GM A-body upper control arms are a direct fit IIRC.
It's Gumby's fault.

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Reply #5
Where do these mount at? I though the strut was the upper controll arm, or is this for the back of the car?

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Reply #6
Rear upper ;)

And to the thread starter: any plans to make lowers..?
'98 Explorer 5.0
'20 Malibu (I know, Chevy, but, 35MPG. Let's go brandon, eh)

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Reply #7
I made one set for my car about five years ago but wasn't planning on making any more but I still have the Solidworks 3D model so I could make more. I actually made a set of fixed length upper control arms five years ago as well (which will soon be for sale!) but because the car has been lowered so much I need adjustable upper to correct my pinion angle to get rid of a driveline vibration.




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Reply #8
I really prefer the adjustable spring weight jacker models.  You can move it up and down to get the height you want and you can also load the passenger side for the drags.

TED

 

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Reply #9
I probably be replacing these eventually with straight tubing with rod ends on both end with no spring mounts and run coil overs

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Reply #10
Quote from: Tbird232ci;318559
GM A-body upper control arms are a direct fit IIRC.


Correct.
-- 05 Mustang GT-Whipplecharged !!
--87 5.0 Trick Flow Heads & Intake - Custom Cam - Many other goodies...3100Lbs...Low12's!

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Reply #11
Quote from: Tbird232ci;318559
GM A-body upper control arms are a direct fit IIRC.


from which year models??
Fox-less at the moment

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Reply #12
68-72 iirc.
-- 05 Mustang GT-Whipplecharged !!
--87 5.0 Trick Flow Heads & Intake - Custom Cam - Many other goodies...3100Lbs...Low12's!

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Reply #13
Can anyone tell me what the C-C measurement is on the upper control arms for our cars?  I think the 83-88's are the same but mine is an 83 if makes a difference.

Darren

83 351W TKO'd T-Bird on the bottle


93 331 Mustang Coupe - 368 rwhp

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