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Old 12-05-2001, 06:36 PM
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Default Adjustable Vs. Non-Adjustable LCA's and Panhart

LS1.com sucks and gave me no destinctive answer so i ask here:

What is the advantage of Adjustable LCA's and Panhart Rod over non-Adjustable LCA's and Panhart Rod for a NON-LOWERED car?

Will the adjustablitiy enable me to controll grip more or is there no pint to spent the extra $.

And if i do lowe my car in the future is there a disadvantage to having adjustable LCA's and Panhart Rod on a car not yet lowered?

All in all is it worth the extra $20 per tiem?
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Old 12-05-2001, 07:19 PM
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Default Re: Adjustable Vs. Non-Adjustable LCA's and Panhart

The adjustable panhard rod is great because it will allow you to center the axle in the wheel wells... many cars are not centered.

As for the LCAs, I don't know. Personally i'd want those to be as solid as possible, but adjustability is also nice.
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Adjustables are more expensive....I am getting a set of the BMR tubulars soon....
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Weel it deff will be BMR but what kind? <img src="images/icons/frown.gif" border="0">
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Default Re: Adjustable Vs. Non-Adjustable LCA's and Panhart

I bought BMR tubular control arms and relcation brackets, and installed them at the same time. I noticed a little difference on the street but not much. Last week I installed a BMR tq arm, and let me tell you the car is totally different. The chassis is tighter the car turns better and lifts under take off. The tq arm is adjustable so you can set the pinion angle, this is the way to go in my opinion. When you get the stock tq arm off you will see its more less just a piece of crap.
Just my 2 cents.
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Default Re: Adjustable Vs. Non-Adjustable LCA's and Panhart

When I had a sloppily built Moser 9" rearend an adj. panhard rod enabled me to get the rearend centered side to side. The brackets weren't in the correct places on the rearend. I also could have used adj. LCAs to get the rearend centered front to back since that was off as well. I modified some LCA relocators instead to fix the problem.

On a car with a properly centered I see no point in them being adjustable.



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