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      03-31-2019, 09:00 AM   #64
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Originally Posted by mdputnam View Post
I'm not sure what you mean by wheel push. But the KMac bushing goes in the lower control arm.


The hole in the bushing is offset pushing the ball joint end of the control arm out, essentially making the stock LCA longer.


The M control arm achieves the same thing only by making the aluminum part of the arm longer. For a given camber they will both have the same wheel geometry.
If the bushing pushes the ball joint end further out, does that also move the entire wheel out further? I know that's the case with the longer M arms, where the entire strut will move outward and you lose fender clearance.. But with these bushings do they negatively affect distance to the fender in the same way?



With longer arms it's easy to see how the entire wheel would move outward. But if the bushing goes in the ball joint, doesn't that only tilt the bottom of wheel out? And the top of the wheel closer to the strut.

Last edited by funseries; 03-31-2019 at 09:06 AM..
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