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Old 08-14-2007, 09:57 PM
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Well not a new item on the market or anything but a new item for us. We now offer a non-adjustable upper A-Arm. Thanks for looking!

www.umiperformance.com/2311

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they look nice!
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Looks good. Need lower a-arms like those now.
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We may do a lower with polyurethane bushings in the future. However the downfall is you can only use a poly bushings on one side, the other side would still need the spherical rod end. This is due to the way GM has a "swivel" rubber bushing from the factory. To put poly on both ends would cause some serious binding issues.

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Do these give more neg camber or pos caster than stock (like say..GW a-arms), or is geometry same as stock other than the ball joint angle?
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Geometry is all the same except the ball joint angle. For cast and camber adjustment we use our adjustable set-up # 2310 www.umiperformance.com/2310 this make you make your changes where you want them to be.
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Yeah, I saw those. I'm a little hesitant to put rod ends up front though...this is still a street car. I realize rod ends are the best for performance, but I really don't like the noise and harshness on the street. I'd like to find a happy medium.
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Nice to see you guys building the non-adj uppers, I'm sure many would like to see the "mostly" non-adj lowers too. I'm with subtlez on his last post about the happy medium.
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Originally Posted by UMI Performance
We may do a lower with polyurethane bushings in the future. However the downfall is you can only use a poly bushings on one side, the other side would still need the spherical rod end. This is due to the way GM has a "swivel" rubber bushing from the factory. To put poly on both ends would cause some serious binding issues.

Thanks for the comment!
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If you decide to go that route With one sperical end, can you include a dust boot with it. It helps quite a bit for us the DD guys. This is one of the main reason I stay away of the spherical ends. They just don't last long enough.




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