BMR 1" lowering A Arms, Stranos, and Konis. PICS
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To my knowledge, this issue has been taken care of on all aftermarket arms from quality brands. In the early years, we supplied reinforcement plates to prevent any failures. Many years ago, we just redesigned the plate entirely to solve the issue all together. Now our arms are as safe as can be until we figure out a way to make them even better.
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sorry for the late reply. My wife and I had our first child in September and between that and working 6 days a week, I havent had any time really to troll the forum, or work on my car much at all.
I'll do my best to get pics, but its going to be tough to tell you the truth. My only day off is sunday and that day is normally packed with family stuff and catching up on things I didnt have time to do during the week.
What I can tell you about the A arms is that they have been great. I drive the car on normal roads with everything one would expect to find on city streets and highways. They have held up great. There is no noticeable noise increases, or handling issues whatsoever. There is some bump steer, but I have experienced that with all of my lowered f bodies. One day I will buy some new tie rod ends to make it that much better. The car has been on long trips (9 hours to Hilton Head), and short ones as well. The arms are top notch.
I'll try to get pics, but it might not be for a week or two at best.
Props to BMR for making a great product, couldnt be happier with them.
I'll do my best to get pics, but its going to be tough to tell you the truth. My only day off is sunday and that day is normally packed with family stuff and catching up on things I didnt have time to do during the week.
What I can tell you about the A arms is that they have been great. I drive the car on normal roads with everything one would expect to find on city streets and highways. They have held up great. There is no noticeable noise increases, or handling issues whatsoever. There is some bump steer, but I have experienced that with all of my lowered f bodies. One day I will buy some new tie rod ends to make it that much better. The car has been on long trips (9 hours to Hilton Head), and short ones as well. The arms are top notch.
I'll try to get pics, but it might not be for a week or two at best.
Props to BMR for making a great product, couldnt be happier with them.
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sorry for the late reply. My wife and I had our first child in September and between that and working 6 days a week, I havent had any time really to troll the forum, or work on my car much at all.
I'll do my best to get pics, but its going to be tough to tell you the truth. My only day off is sunday and that day is normally packed with family stuff and catching up on things I didnt have time to do during the week.
What I can tell you about the A arms is that they have been great. I drive the car on normal roads with everything one would expect to find on city streets and highways. They have held up great. There is no noticeable noise increases, or handling issues whatsoever. There is some bump steer, but I have experienced that with all of my lowered f bodies. One day I will buy some new tie rod ends to make it that much better. The car has been on long trips (9 hours to Hilton Head), and short ones as well. The arms are top notch.
I'll try to get pics, but it might not be for a week or two at best.
Props to BMR for making a great product, couldnt be happier with them.
I'll do my best to get pics, but its going to be tough to tell you the truth. My only day off is sunday and that day is normally packed with family stuff and catching up on things I didnt have time to do during the week.
What I can tell you about the A arms is that they have been great. I drive the car on normal roads with everything one would expect to find on city streets and highways. They have held up great. There is no noticeable noise increases, or handling issues whatsoever. There is some bump steer, but I have experienced that with all of my lowered f bodies. One day I will buy some new tie rod ends to make it that much better. The car has been on long trips (9 hours to Hilton Head), and short ones as well. The arms are top notch.
I'll try to get pics, but it might not be for a week or two at best.
Props to BMR for making a great product, couldnt be happier with them.
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AA020 - 1" Lowering a-arms
If you would like some other pictures I can open a box up and take some other pictures
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sorry for the late reply. My wife and I had our first child in September and between that and working 6 days a week, I havent had any time really to troll the forum, or work on my car much at all.
I'll do my best to get pics, but its going to be tough to tell you the truth. My only day off is sunday and that day is normally packed with family stuff and catching up on things I didnt have time to do during the week.
What I can tell you about the A arms is that they have been great. I drive the car on normal roads with everything one would expect to find on city streets and highways. They have held up great. There is no noticeable noise increases, or handling issues whatsoever. There is some bump steer, but I have experienced that with all of my lowered f bodies. One day I will buy some new tie rod ends to make it that much better. The car has been on long trips (9 hours to Hilton Head), and short ones as well. The arms are top notch.
I'll try to get pics, but it might not be for a week or two at best.
Props to BMR for making a great product, couldnt be happier with them.
I'll do my best to get pics, but its going to be tough to tell you the truth. My only day off is sunday and that day is normally packed with family stuff and catching up on things I didnt have time to do during the week.
What I can tell you about the A arms is that they have been great. I drive the car on normal roads with everything one would expect to find on city streets and highways. They have held up great. There is no noticeable noise increases, or handling issues whatsoever. There is some bump steer, but I have experienced that with all of my lowered f bodies. One day I will buy some new tie rod ends to make it that much better. The car has been on long trips (9 hours to Hilton Head), and short ones as well. The arms are top notch.
I'll try to get pics, but it might not be for a week or two at best.
Props to BMR for making a great product, couldnt be happier with them.
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I tried PM'ing the OP but he he hasn't replied.
I'm actually looking for pictures of the product after being used, with around or over 15,000 street miles on them. The pictures from OP's car would answer my question better than pictures of brand new product.
Here is link to the pictures available off our website that show the shock mounting plates pretty well just click on the image of the product and it will enlarge.
AA020 - 1" Lowering a-arms
If you would like some other pictures I can open a box up and take some other pictures
AA020 - 1" Lowering a-arms
If you would like some other pictures I can open a box up and take some other pictures
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Give me a call here at the shop and I will see what I can do for you.
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Here are some photos of our shock mount plates. This is one of the details that sets our arms apart from everyone else.
Back in the day, many manufacturer's A-arms were beginning to receive some failures due to potholes and what not. The shock mount plate would bend or distort. So, instead of just labeling them a race-only pieces, we made an attempt to fix the problem. We did this by offering reinforcement plates that we sent with our A-arms. This worked well and failures went away, but it wasn't the solution we were looking for - we knew we could improve the design. So we decided to box the mount by welding small gussets on the side of the plate. This worked well, and ultimately led us to our final design you see here. From a single plate shaped into a box and then welded. This is what the thick plates look like before being welded. They're extremely strong and haven't be a point of failure for any A-arm since moving to this design.
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Back in the day, many manufacturer's A-arms were beginning to receive some failures due to potholes and what not. The shock mount plate would bend or distort. So, instead of just labeling them a race-only pieces, we made an attempt to fix the problem. We did this by offering reinforcement plates that we sent with our A-arms. This worked well and failures went away, but it wasn't the solution we were looking for - we knew we could improve the design. So we decided to box the mount by welding small gussets on the side of the plate. This worked well, and ultimately led us to our final design you see here. From a single plate shaped into a box and then welded. This is what the thick plates look like before being welded. They're extremely strong and haven't be a point of failure for any A-arm since moving to this design.
![](https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/s720x720/420139_476088212408855_352293704_n.jpg)
![](https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/s720x720/426699_476088252408851_311587198_n.jpg)
![](https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/s720x720/181163_476088272408849_2019513991_n.jpg)
![](https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/s720x720/293253_476088292408847_1252157596_n.jpg)
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Here are some photos of our shock mount plates. This is one of the details that sets our arms apart from everyone else.
Back in the day, many manufacturer's A-arms were beginning to receive some failures due to potholes and what not. The shock mount plate would bend or distort. So, instead of just labeling them a race-only pieces, we made an attempt to fix the problem. We did this by offering reinforcement plates that we sent with our A-arms. This worked well and failures went away, but it wasn't the solution we were looking for - we knew we could improve the design. So we decided to box the mount by welding small gussets on the side of the plate. This worked well, and ultimately led us to our final design you see here. From a single plate shaped into a box and then welded. This is what the thick plates look like before being welded. They're extremely strong and haven't be a point of failure for any A-arm since moving to this design.
Back in the day, many manufacturer's A-arms were beginning to receive some failures due to potholes and what not. The shock mount plate would bend or distort. So, instead of just labeling them a race-only pieces, we made an attempt to fix the problem. We did this by offering reinforcement plates that we sent with our A-arms. This worked well and failures went away, but it wasn't the solution we were looking for - we knew we could improve the design. So we decided to box the mount by welding small gussets on the side of the plate. This worked well, and ultimately led us to our final design you see here. From a single plate shaped into a box and then welded. This is what the thick plates look like before being welded. They're extremely strong and haven't be a point of failure for any A-arm since moving to this design.
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A arms have held up great. I think I will need to get some bump steer tie rod ends just because it is so low now. Bun no noise louder than stock, handling is improved, ride height is great.
I might actually have to lower the rear a 1/4 or so now. Im totally happy. Once i get some funds I want to get the upper a arms from BMR as well.
I might actually have to lower the rear a 1/4 or so now. Im totally happy. Once i get some funds I want to get the upper a arms from BMR as well.
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shocks are defiantly not visible from the road at all. They are hard to see if you bend over lol. Don't sweat the yellow. They are koni yellows after all, if anything people with recognize them as good shocks. however, I guess you could have them painted but I don't think it will last as the shocks are constantly bouncing up and down rubbing etc.
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shocks are defiantly not visible from the road at all. They are hard to see if you bend over lol. Don't sweat the yellow. They are koni yellows after all, if anything people with recognize them as good shocks. however, I guess you could have them painted but I don't think it will last as the shocks are constantly bouncing up and down rubbing etc.
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