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Just passing along some real life experience with the BMR LCA drop brackets in my phonto sold by BMR.
First off I put these on about a month ago and they really help the tire shredding I was doing. Even with the street tires I had (factory tire) traction improved 200%. Worth every penny.
Here is the deal though.. I had read some posts that welding them on is optional so that's what i went with. No weld, bolt on only.
While at the track last weekend the car was hooking well...like usual with the MT drag radial setup I am running. On the way home the rear end was whining like something was wrong. I got under the car and saw right away that the bmr lca bracket had pivoted about 1/4" on the axle mount. You could clearly see the original line where the brace had been.
I measured the pinion angle while i was at it and my negative 3 degree was gone too. It was now 3 degrees off.
Luckily my neighbor has a welder. We loosened up the bracket and repositioned it back to the original spot and welded it in this time. (after using a wire wheel on a grinder to clean up the rust on the axle and removing the
Moral of the story...if you are hooking up with a sticky tire and using these BRR LCA drop brackets ... weld them in like BMR suggests.
First off I put these on about a month ago and they really help the tire shredding I was doing. Even with the street tires I had (factory tire) traction improved 200%. Worth every penny.
Here is the deal though.. I had read some posts that welding them on is optional so that's what i went with. No weld, bolt on only.
While at the track last weekend the car was hooking well...like usual with the MT drag radial setup I am running. On the way home the rear end was whining like something was wrong. I got under the car and saw right away that the bmr lca bracket had pivoted about 1/4" on the axle mount. You could clearly see the original line where the brace had been.
I measured the pinion angle while i was at it and my negative 3 degree was gone too. It was now 3 degrees off.
Luckily my neighbor has a welder. We loosened up the bracket and repositioned it back to the original spot and welded it in this time. (after using a wire wheel on a grinder to clean up the rust on the axle and removing the
Moral of the story...if you are hooking up with a sticky tire and using these BRR LCA drop brackets ... weld them in like BMR suggests.