who makes these besides sphon, i talked to bruce at hawks and he said spoony is on back order

i need one pretty soon.

 

BMR, PA Racing... Can't remember others off hand..

 

i just heard that PA was on back order also.

 

You don't really need a tubular k-member, lots of swaps done using the stock k-member.

 

i realize this.

nobody on the board makes them?

 

AJE Racing makes a tubular K member for Third Gens, but its not meant for the LS1 swap. You would have to make 2 plates to bring the mouting points back for the LS1 conversion mounts. The pic illustrates this in red with the LS1 conversion mount showing how far back it needs to be.

 

no offense but for 450 bucks it should be all ready to go.

 

None at all. I was just trying to give you an alternative. Looks like your waiting for the shipping. Just trying to help...

 

Your choices are either to

Modify your stock K-member to work.
Use the A/C relocation bracket
Modify a tubular non-LS1 K-member to work.
Wait in line like the rest of the people that want the Hawks/Spohn K-member.

I got my LS1 K-member from Hawks before he decided to go to Spohn, and well, I got a workable, but not perfect product. So you can feel two ways about it, happy that you didn't get the old product, or pissed that you have to wait while Spohn catches up on all the backorders that Hawks has....

 

i guess ill mock up a stock one i have laying around and stand in line for a pa or spohn k member.

thanks for all the help.

 

I'm curious, what's wrong with the BMR one?

 

money.

pa wants i think 250 or so, bmr wants 450 iirc, aje wants over 400

i couldnt find a price on spohns site.

ive heard good and bad about pa, i have a friend that runs the pa k member, he doesnt recommend it. i dont understand why it works fine. he just had a bad time dealing pa.

 

Does anyone have any problems with the BMR one? I know it's more $$, but I don't want to wait 3 months to put everything back in if the BMR is of good quality.

 

don't think there is anything wrong with the BMR k-member. It cost $499.95 and you can't use the stock a-arms, must use BMR's($329.95 for coilover a arms and $439.95 for OE replacement's). If you plan on using spings in the front and not coilovers you need to buy the upper spring mounts that adds $89.95.

so.....
$1029.85+tax & shipping for an OE setup
$829.90+tax, price of coilovers & shipping

 

Ok, good. It looked pretty beefy, but it's a last resort if nothing comes out by the time I need it, as I sure don't want to shell out more $ for a-arms.

 

I have the pa k member with the spohn motor mount brackets and everthing worked great.

 

Nick (Solomotorsport) is having some serious issues with his AJE tubular K member. I dont know if I personally would feel comfortable with that K member in my car.

Jeremy

 

I remember reading somewhere where a person had some problems with a set of PA a-arms. They broke while she was driving the car.

 

link? my friend is running the tubular control arms as well as the crossmember. hes on the board, mrdude_1. that might want to be brought to his attention.

 

https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/susp...arm-broke.html

 

this is what i used as well. unfortunately the picture above was dead on so i triangulated the mounts with extra bracing just in case. $600 later and it works like a charm.

 

you called him spoony...


tara, just run the hawks mounts on the stocker until someone makes a decent kmember to swap..

 

thats what we are doing. if you would have read the rest of the thread.

 

I'll be going to a BMR so I guess we'll see what happens. If it holds up well, then it's definately worth the money... we'll see!