niburu

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Yesterday after an autocross I was putting the street tires back on and saw it. The Mounting bracket on the lower control arm had sheered off. Now it should be mentioned I have a Racing Beat swaybar and their heavy duty adjustable endlinks - which don't look the least bit like they bent at all. So how much of pain in the *** is this going to be to replace? Who has done this before, I certainly can't be the only one. Any tips or advice would be appreciated.

niburu

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perhaps i posted to early this morning and got buried
or
perhaps I do drive harder than everyone else

F1blueRx7

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The s5 mounts are very flimsy in my opinion. I would take it to a race shop and have something more heavy duty welded in place or just get an s4 control arm from the junkyard.

niburu

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Thus far, that seem's to be my plan A - I have a local guy that does raced prepped 7's

eyeoutthere

You should be able to make your own.

It is just a piece of steel bent in a "U" with some holes drilled in it.

niburu

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I'd need tools n' stuff to do that
also the bolt section of the bracket is welded to (the part that actually goes through the control arm) is made of aluminum and I don't know anyone offhand that could weld a steel bracket to an aluminum rod.

So for now I am just going to replace it with an oem bracket and check my torque settings on all suspensions peices.

I'll have to post some pics of the bracket peices it looks like the is some rust inside the metal itself so it may have just been a crappy peice from day one.