Oooooooo new A-arms for the V6 streetcarthatthinksit'saracecar.

"WarShrike" (warshrike) 08/21/2015 at 00:00 • Filed to: None

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The brown truck stopped by today!

UMI Performance Inc. boxed A-Arms. This is pretty much the last part of the suspension puzzle for the car. Just got really busy with other things today and things are competing for my time when I really wanted a clean and open schedule to finish...this...car!

I actually remember asking about boxed A-arms like the LG Motorsports ones a few years back and Ryan from UMI piped up that they actually had prototypes in the works. So, a few years later I finally get around to buying them, better late than never!

This is for the V6 Firebird I’m building, so you don’t have to keep guessing WTF this is going on. It’s not a LADA, that’s for sure.

Really clean design, looking forward to putting this through the paces soon enough:

Slant6 > WarShrike 08/21/2015 at 00:31

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I’m no engineer but wouldn’t a cast aluminum arm be lighter and stronger (no welds to break on)?

WarShrike > Slant6 08/21/2015 at 00:38

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Yes, it would probably be lighter. But this company doesn’t deal in cast parts and the original A-arm on the Firebird is stamped steel. This one is supported rather well compared to some of the tubular “drag race” A-arms. This one was built with the intent of street/auto-x/road race use.

I’m not so sure how well the cast aluminum would handle the roto-joint ends though.

vondon302 > WarShrike 08/21/2015 at 06:34

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Holy crap thats sweet looking. I’m off to look up boxed a arms for stangs now. Let us see some install pics. Thx

WarShrike > vondon302 08/21/2015 at 08:26

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Yup, will do. Have to modify the spindles today so I can fit the CTS-V brakes.

vondon302 > WarShrike 08/21/2015 at 08:54

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Cts v brakes? This sounds like a really cool build. Keep us all informed and good luck.