You guys will like what we have fabbed up. Like I had said in that previous post, the fabrication was not complete. There are in fact gussets that follow the triangle design of the shock tower. It runs from the top of the control arm shaft, to the upper mounting tabs.
It looks trick, and it allows the shock to evenly distribute the load across 4 grade 8 bolts.
The reason why we didn't just do what TCP did, is because we were trying new things. The design of both the upper and lower arms for production will be slightly different, and if this upper shock mount doesn't pan out in testing, we will probably just go to the TCP style of upper mount.
I appreciate your guys' input, and it's interesting that we all had kind of the same idea about the gussets. In fact we just finished tack welding them tonight.
Powdercoating can be in any color you want. I have already discussed it with my local shop, and they are on board at a discounted rate.
One thing you guys could help me with is this: We are looking for a screw in ball joint that would replace the bolt in style upper joint. I am flat wore out from working my regular job, then heading to the shop to work on this stuff...plus making phone calls, ect ect.
If anyone has any idea of a screw in joint that will work with our spindles, please let me know.
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