eLTwerker

What do these aftermarket parts provide besides weight loss? It seems crazy to spend around $1000 to drop under 40 lbs.

white01ss

iTrader: (37)

Save weight and give more adjustment on the alignment than stock k-member.

Car people generally care more about results than cost... How many folks on here have started off with heads/cam, then nitrous, then supercharger, then turbo, then back to heads/cam/nitrous? Set-up for rr/ax or for dragstrip? It seems we’re never happy until we’ve tried everything.

jmilz28

iTrader: (13)

Keep in mind, it drops significant weight from the nose of the car, lightening AND equalizing weight distribution. Drop 40 lbs there, another 30-40 by relocating the battery, etc. and you can see how that can help make our cars handling a tad more neutral.

It also adds adjustability (as mentioned) AND clearance for other parts (turbos, headers, suspension, etc.) as well as easier access to some places.

It gives you a chance to easily clean the engine bay and redo everything. Besides, it looks COOL.

JBM

iTrader: (15)

Not always additional clearance. Headers did not hit with stock K-member, and it did with the UMI piece.

UMI Performance

iTrader: (77)

JBM which headers are you running, the Jet Hots?

Thanks,
Ryan

Pipelayaz

iTrader: (2)

"did" as is it doesn't anymore?

UMI Performance

iTrader: (77)

We add a addtional gusset to the K-member to prevent failure on hard side loads. This gusset has cleared all the header set-ups we have tried to the exception of Jet Hots, the guesst just needed hit very lightly with a die grinder to prevent it from rubbing. I assume this is where the issue is? Something we are working on making better, but that is the only brand we have found.

Hope that helps,
Ryan

WhiplashDVD

iTrader: (1)

JBM has the Edelbrock Long tubes

Do you have to run the tubular control arms when converting to the UMI k-member?