well, i bought some LCA from spohn, and have decided to go with some relocation brackets..but, i don't want to weld them on my car, and was wondering if i was to buy some brackets from someone else, if my LCAs will still fit in them?

 

any lca bracket you get will need to be welded. is you car lowered? how much? i would not trust any bolt in lca there is alot of pressure on em and if one went while driving it would be a nasty wreck.
jeff

 

Kaas, I strongly suggest you listen to what jeff said...if you don't wanna weld them, do not use them then.

 

I imagine even a loose bolt would be enough to throw the backend out on you. Weld em...

 

N/M...


Ed

 

if the car is not lowered you may not even need them. that is why i ask if it is. some simple lowers may not even need them. the lca relocation bracket corrects rear end geometry to prevent wheel hop. do you have wheel hop?

jeff

 

I've had my bolt in BMR brackets for 3 years and 30,000 miles. Still tight and they aint movin.

 

Do they connect to the rear end with one bolt or two?

 

They attach to the shock bolt and to the origional mount hole. So 2 spots

 

Ah... I didn't think of the shock bolt... crafty BMR. Two mounts for the LCARBs should be fine for bolt-ons, but I would still get them welded on eventually.

 

If you think about it, Everybody says the downward force would break the bolt on ones. If that was the case, wouldnt they want the LCA welded on? I mean its just lowering it with a bolt. With welding it on whats the welding really doing. In stock form a BOLT is whats holds the LCA on? With bolt in ones a bolt is holding it on again. If the bolt fails on the bolt in LCA what says the bolt on the LCA wouldnt have broken if it were attached to a weld in one? In all 3 years of surfing this board I have not found one incident of where the Bolt in LCA bracket has failed.

 

You make a good point, but in stock form, the only weak point is the one bolt. With bolt-on relocation brackets, there are now two weak points: the LCA bolted to the LCARB and the LCARB bolted to the rear. Personally, I don't see a point in not welding them on, and it's safer, so that's why I would do it.

 

Oh i totally agree it is the BEST solution to weld it on, but like me, I dont access to a welder or anything. (Also on my 2nd rear so I just moved them over lol)

 

Look here:
http://www.bmrfabrication.com/F3-chassis.htm#cab

 

if its designed for weld it must be welded. the lca has only one bolt but the original lca baracket was welded to the axle tube. a 1 inch bead of weld is stronger than most bolts. so if you just tossed bolt in a weld in lca and ran it the bracket woule work back n forth till thebolt shears off. now your talking designed bolt in that is diffrent. not sure how they work as i have never sen them.

jeff

 

Those are it

 

Yea... You cant bolt in "weld" in ones.

 

just get the bolt in ones and they if you wanted to you could bolt them in . Its the way to go .

 

hey those look nice. the spohn are weld in and have 2 holes. i am using the higher one and had to cut a chunk out of the bracket to get my pbr calipers to fit. i bet i could of fit those right on with the pbr's.

jeff