Tubular contro arms, any interest??

[JShadzi at aol.com]

Understood WRT strenght, the stock arms are carefully desinges to crumple and 
self destruct at more or less the slightest impact, but I dont' imagine 
you'll be able to design the same feature in the CA's you're buiding, and say you 
did, I'd expect a considerable amount of testing before I'd put them on my own 
car.  

Withstanding rigorous testing, the only option IMO is to make the design 
strong to rule out failure during the normal course of use.  I think for all 
practical purposes this part should be considered a race piece, it wouldn't be 
practical to think it will have the same saftey features as the stock pice, which 
works exceptionally well.

Javad


In a message dated 2/13/2004 4:21:52 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
Martin at quattro.ca writes:
Hi,

Heim joints at bushings end is another alternative, actually it was my 
initial thought and Assebly A.. ;), this would provide the small caster adjustments 
for the few that want it... 
However those would be slightly more expensive and transfer more shock into 
the chassis.

The idea is not to make these stronger than stock, one reason is that when 
you hit a curbe you want a weak link to brake before all the force is transfered 
into the sub-frame and chassis...

Let me make the first samples and test fit them... shouldn't take long, maybe 
couple of weeks.

I'll let everyone know of the results and costs invloved.

Thanks!
Martin Pajak

Pajak Performance Parts
www.quattro.ca