Reply With QuoteJust curious where are you getting all the parts for these arms?
One rear trailing arm down! See i do still work on my car. Big thanks to my friend Jake for dvice and doing the TIG welding for me.
Lateral arm is next.
Just curious where are you getting all the parts for these arms?
94 Talon TSI AWD 5spd6 bolt 1g big rod/2g psiton combo,crower 272s, crower valve springs and ti retainers, 3g lifters, mild head porting, turbonetics 60 trim, ported 2g mani, 1g vrsf fmic, fidanza flywheel, act 2600 street disc, ecmlink v3 with gm maf to ecu,arp fastners throughout, agx's with H&R springs,sst rear sway bar,Apexi N1 3" turbo-back exhaust, build still going for now.
Swedge tubes from Jet racing: http://store.jetracinginc.com/swedgetubes.htmlOriginally Posted by Craracer05
Rod ends are QA1 units
Rod end tie rod adaptor was from speedway.
Standoffs are designed by me and I have a machinist turn them for me.
The end with the clevis (trailing arm) I came up with with the help of my neighbor. My friend Jake does all my TIG work for me along with a lot of my machining too. Super great guy!
I have done a TON of searching to find some of this stuff.
Updates?????? its been a while, we want more lol!!
Hopefully soon. I have had almost no time to touch the car. To much powder coating for me to do.
Here is a little update:
This is where I'm think about mount the custom sway bar.
Excuse the crappy paint drawing but it's all I have to work with at the moment. Purple= bar Yellow= heim joints
Since my spare tire well is gone I was thinking this would be the best place to mount the bar. It would also be mounted to a much more ridged area than the cross member location.
Thoughts on this set up?
I'm also look at bolting the EVo steering rack into my car, It looks doable with lots of work. I just need to do more research and measuring. That's it for updates. I know it's not much.
Man I started reading this and love all of the custom work!!I can't wait for updates!!
03 Tarmac Black Evo Under the Knife.Carrillo H Beams, JE Pistons, 2.4 Crank, PTE 6262, Shearer Mani, Shep Stage Trans/X Case, A lot of Coated Goodies, D2's and Hoosiers...9's or Bust!
03 RedFire CobraKB 2.4(15psi), Full Bolt Ons, And in about a year twin 66mm Turbos!
So I'm going to pass on the Evo rack for now. It is doable(pretty sure) but I think it will be best to leave the stock one for now. After talking with Andrew Brilliant it sound like the car will need all the steering assist it can get with the tire sizes I plan on running.
So here is what I have done. I have been working stuffing my car with metal bearings. The last arm do to is the compression arm. I saved this arm for last for many reasons. It controls are dynamic camber and toe on the front of the car under braking and acceleration. The bushing in it is huge and has a dog bone through the center for mounting it. Also the mounting bolts bolts are in single shear and that could be very bad with the change in peak loads it will see.
After talking to Andrew(thank you sir) and reading his blog post on how he used deflection tuning I'm not sure if putting a spherical bearing in the compression arm in a ridged housing is the best idea. I'm going to try along with Andrew's and Adam Proto to design a bushing that will still allow the dynamic camber where we want it but also allow the arm to pivot with out binding. I'm not sure we can do it but it's worth looking into.
Just in case I went ahead and welded a tabs on the sides to put the compression arm bolts in double shear. A plate that will tie into several of the other bolts on the cross member to put those bolts in double shear. The cross member should be coated very soon. I also beefed up the lateral arm clevis so that it should not have problems with the metal bearing being used there. I actually did these welds myself so they could look better but hey, It's only my third time welding. Yeah!
Again not much but hey it's something.
Bam! Front x-member done!
60% SD gloss black. I bit washed out looking from the flash but you get the idea. It was still 350+ degrees so I didn't really want to touch it to bring it outside for better pics.It's a rare day that I get to powdre my own stuff.
I f'n love this thread, probably one of my favorite builds of all time. I've always wanted to see some custom arms and such on 2nd gens for years. Good stuff man, good luck on the build!
1996 talon tsi
E-85 E316g
11.22 @ 130
400+hp - 400+lb bench press club
Its looking great man! thanks for the update and keep them coming
93tsi awd. 6-bolt swap, hks turbo timer, safc2, suspension techniques sway bar, kyb agx's, tein springs, ingalls camber correction kit, walbro 255, 680cc injectors, adjustable fpr, ported evo3 manifold, ported big 16g, hallman pro rx, arp studs & steel gasket, web racing cams, hks cam gears, egr block off, 2.5" buschur 02 housing, 2.5 full exhaust, buschur front mount, tial blow off, gm 3" mas with converter, ss clutch line, act 2600.
93tsi fwd - sold to my bro!
- Fly like an Eagle!
A small up date:
Front knuckle have been shaved and coated. It dropped right at 1/2 lbs per knuckle. More could be had but I stuck to the large easy to reach areas . I'm happy
nice cant wait to see some completion...lol
Me too.
give you much respect, this is a fantastic thread....
Keeping Mitsubishi in business since 2003..
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