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Mar 22, 2005 | 03:58 AM

Unforgiven1

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Building Offset Trailing Arms

I saw a post a while back referencing a previous thread about building your own offset trailing arms. I can't seem to find it anywhere. Does anyone have any of this info/pictures lying around? Thanks!

Mar 22, 2005 | 04:01 AM

mrvette

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Norval is the guy who did it, and has pix, he should be on line with some shortly, I would think, basically he just cut out the section of outside interfearance area, and welded in a plate going the opposite direction.....dunno how else to describe it, need a pix....

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Mar 22, 2005 | 06:06 AM

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this is how it's done, note that it's stronger than stock because you have 3 "walls" instead of 2

Mar 22, 2005 | 09:52 AM

norvalwilhelm

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Originally Posted by Twin_Turbo

this is how it's done, note that it's stronger than stock because you have 3 "walls" instead of 2

That's it Marck. You measure where you want the offset and in our case that is about 13 inches in front of the center of the large hole in the trailing arm. The amount of offset is the thickness of the trailing arm in that spot. You add the back plate first, then the top and bottom plates , then cut the original front out , but not through the original back wall, that becomes your 3rd wall and fill in the front.
It is very easy, doing it in steps saves you from jigging the whole thing and these homemade trailing arms will clear up to 6 1/2 inch backspacing.
I have posted on this a number of times.
If our search is not working go to Digital Corvette. Their search works. Look under my name norvalwilhelm

Mar 22, 2005 | 10:43 AM

lostpatrolman

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Here is norval's

Here is some racers on the car. Same idea, but not nice and curved like norvals.

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Mar 22, 2005 | 11:20 AM

norvalwilhelm

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This is a shot on the car

Mar 22, 2005 | 04:30 PM

Twin_Turbo

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that racers arm also does not have 3 walls, the outside wall now is the inside of the old inner wall, there's only 2 angled sections welded in and a /--\ shape on the other side (how2's that for graphics huh