I'm still working on my front end... not sure I'll ever settle on a final design. I've made a few changes that you can see in the pics. First, the crossbar that will be the mount for the front lower a-arm and the steering rack has been upgraded to 1/8" from 16ga. I felt like that part is going to see a pretty large amount of stress, and I watched "Senna" around the same time. I don't feel like having a catastrophic steering failure. Not that I really think something like would happen... mostly it's because the bushings I'm planning on using for the a-arms will be 1 3/4" wide and a 2" square 1/8" wall tube has... 1 3/4" width inside. Perfect.
I'm also working on the upper a-arm mounts as well. I'm attempting to build a McSorely-esque design except a little more homemade. I'm not 100% settled on something yet. I keep thinking it might just be easier to make the upper mounts fixed and forget all the complexity with making them adjustable.
Last bit of progress for the day was cutting the new front a-arm mount down tubes. If I choose the route of adjustable upper a-arms, I'll need both mounting tubes to be vertical. These will also work to support for the steering rack crossbar.
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