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Arrow Interested in tubular, adjustable MS3 front lower control arms?

I recently started an email dialogue with a gentleman who makes custom suspension parts (he currently is selling a lot of stuff for the Ford Focus) and have asked him if he has any interest in making stuff for our platform (I'm sure his rear Focus camber arms can already be used on our cars, as the SPC arms for our cars are the exact part that they sell for C170 Focuses as well).

Here is his website;

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...and here are some pictures of his Focus front LCAs:

















So, for those of you looking for a way to get some more negative camber, these might be the ticket.

Thing is, he needs an OEM arm to get started with and to take some measurements from...

Do any of you guys have some old arms laying around, or are we gonna have to start a collection to buy him some new ones so he can get started on designing/fabricating?

Here is my original email to him, along with his response:


Greetings-

I've seen the suspension parts that you fabricate for Ford Focuses, and was wondering what it would take for you to be able to adapt your front control arm design to the Mazdaspeed 3, which as you probably know uses a very similar (but not exactly interchangeable) setup.

There are no really good options for adding negative camber to the MS3 (K-Mac plates are all that is available, and quite frankly they're crap - not to mention they won't work with my particular coilover setup without custom adapters), and I know of quite a few guys who are looking for a better way to get negative camber, so there may be some potential for you to expand into the platform if you're interested.

Is that something you'd ever consider?

Yes I would definitely be interested. I would need to get a stock MS3 front control arm to look at. Do you have one available, or know anyone that would have a spare? I know the rear suspension is almost identical already, since the rear camber arms fit the mazda as well. Let me know if you happen to have pics of the MS3 front control arms as well.
Can any of you guys help out?




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Copied from post #92

So here's a bit of a "long-term update" from somebody running these on a Focus:

https://www.facebook.com/topspeedperformance



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