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Old Jul 22, 2002 | 03:31 PM
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I have a spohn adjustable race torque arm, and have been having some problems with it lately, so I went under the car today to have a look at everything. Where the torque arm mounts to the floor pan it is bent to ****. It is so bent that the driveshaft loop is out of alignment and hits my driveshaft. So now I cant drive my car because I cant put the torque arm back on and I dont know what to do. The torque arm itself is perfectly fine but the floor pan is all messed up. So what can I do? please help <img border="0" title="" alt="[Sad]" src="gr_sad.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Mad]" src="gr_images/icons/mad.gif" />
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Old Jul 22, 2002 | 06:46 PM
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why can't you just put the stock torque arm back on?

your situation is common for TA's that mount to the floor pan
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Old Jul 23, 2002 | 07:08 AM
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Yep, there is a lot to be said for using the stock mounting points
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Old Jul 23, 2002 | 11:16 AM
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Man, I'm sorry to hear about the problems. Do you remember hitting anything? How bad is the floorpan beat up? <img border="0" title="" alt="[Sad]" src="gr_sad.gif" />
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Old Jul 23, 2002 | 06:04 PM
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Our G2 torque arm is an excellent unit! It's not only strong, but it's 5 lbs. lighter, too. Nineball is running one on his '98 Formula, and he's cut 1.48 60' times with a six-speed. His current ET is 10.69, FWIW. The unit will take a ton of abuse and won't give you any ground clearance problems. Feel free to give me a call if you want to talk about it some more. We keep them in stock.

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Old Jul 24, 2002 | 12:42 AM
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It is beat up pretty bad. I remember hitting something fairly hard, but that was pretty normal because my car is lowered. But the bolts holes are bent up really good. And I think I need an aftermarket torque arm as I am going to be runnung 10s. Is there another good one that doesnt sacrifice ground clearence and is really strong?
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