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Just bought a set of 18 9.5 +30 all round.

Fronts hit on full lock on the back web of the UCA.

Fitted a 5mm spacer, now have 3mm clearance with the car still jacked up.

Currently have 7mm clearance with 17 8.5 +35's.

Don't really want to use the spacers, plus sticks out a little too far for my liking.

I'm thinking of grinding away a section of the stiffening web on the upper control arm.

Probably only needs 5mm deep x 15mm long

Q's

Does the rim get closer to the UCA when the car is in motion as the suspension compresses ?

And, am I risking too much with grinding ?

I'm assuming these arms are over engineered 50 %

My main dilemma is: If I go back a size on the rim to (8.5) , the spokes lose the aggressive dish I'm after.

Thoughts please.

cheers

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my honest opinion, if its a look thing, push the wheels out with spacers, then stretch some tyres over them, and camber the bitch with some adj uppers.

personally i probably wouldnt have an issue with taking that much out of a UCA, especially if u reinforce it in other ways. those front UCA's are f**king tough, the LCA, cross member, castor rods/bracket, tie rods, will all generally break before ur UCA's

yeah the fronts will have 235's on them, quite stretched on a 9.5 rim.

The rims are Rota P45-R's.

What's the go with agro camber?

Do you replace the stock UCA's with adjustable ones?

cheers

u can go a lot more stretch than that.

yeh, adjustable uca's, or lengthened lca's

u can go a lot more stretch than that.

yeh, adjustable uca's, or lengthened lca's

I saw another post with an adjustable UCA link. They still retained the arm, but it was GTR.

Who makes these custom control arms or where can you get em?

Not much coming up on internet search.

cheers

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