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10238, Adjustable ball joints and rear brackets (Specialty Products) info
Posted by juan, Jun-18-02 01:28 PM
Here is some info on the Specialty Products adjustable ball joints and rear brackets, taken from the DSM AutoX list.

juan



----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Freeman" <tomfreeman@m...>
Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 4:45 PM
Subject: Camber - another option

I managed to find the websites for Specialty Products
(http://www.specprod.com & http://www.specperformance.com), and I ended calling one of their technicians. I described my proposed suspension setup and that the car was a street car but was auto-xed regularly. He steered me away from the eccentric bushing solutions. They offer three options - a press-in bushing that provides +/- .75 degree of adjustment, and control arm anchor bolt replacements that give positive camber adjustments (up to 3.25 degrees!!!) He said that the bushings and the anchor bolts squeaked a lot, and required yearly removal to clean the camber adjusters.

What he strongly recommended was the SpecProd adjustable ball joints. For my use, he recommended the +/- 1.5 degree adjustable joint. I requires no maintenance and is more friendly on the street.

For the rear of the car, they offer an adjustable bracket that gives you about +/- 1.5 degrees of adjustment. FWIW, he frowned heavily upon longer bolt/washer kits, even the one they sell.

Interesting stuff.

Tom Freeman
'97 GSX
SM #15

----- Reply -----

From: "John Seelbinder" <1999gsx@r...>
Date: Tue Jun 18, 2002 5:11 pm
Subject: Re: Camber - another option


This is the link for the ball joints:
http://www.specprod.com/TEMP_DIR/TEMP_67170.HTML

and this is for the rear brackets:
http://www.specprod.com/TEMP_DIR/TEMP_73620.HTML

John

10239, RE: Adjustable ball joints and rear brackets (Specialty Products) info
Posted by iamnotwhoiam, Jun-19-02 12:56 AM
this is some cool stuff.. nice find.