I was looking at his site and he wants $350 for his adjustable Torque Arm.
what all does it do to justify it's price?
I hear it helps with wheel hop and traction, but how? can anyone explain how it works?

 

it's adjustable and relocates the forward mounting point to the floor pan

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Like ede said, it takes the front mount point off the side of the trans, and relocates it to the crossmember. Good-bye to the one-use trans mount problem.

It felt like taking a giant rubber band out of my car. When I changed it, it made the car feel like the whole driveline was tighter. I would attribute this to energy being stored in bending the stock one, and allowing the rear end to "wrap" a little bit like it does in leaf spring setups.

I have the Spohn arm, Spohn LCA reloc brackets, Lakewood LCAs, and a boxed-in Panhard bar. The whole thing is so much tighter-feeling than stock it's like night and day, almost to the point that it's difficult to spin the tires. It wants to plant them and jump on a hard launch. No wheel hop, no rear end squat, no fistailing (used to be REALLY severe in this car), and no broken trans mounts!!!

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ICON Motorsports

 

thanks for the info! a few questions still

how much further back is the torque arm relocated? Would I also have to purchase a crossmember for the TA to attach to?
what can you adjust with these TA? just pinion angle?

 

I've got that torque arm too, along with Spohn LCA's and PHR. All of it is great stuff!
Anyway, back to your question...
The torque arm comes with a completely new transmission crossmember which the TA attaches to. The best way I can think of to describe it is a male end on the TA, and a female end at the crossmember. The old mounting point for the TA was on the transmission. The new mounting point will be BELOW the crossmember. The pinion angle is what you adjust at the TA, controlling suspension preload for a hard or soft launch. I don't even drag my car since I've just got a 305, but for the street I can't tell you the difference Spohn made in my rear end!

 

so Spohn's TA is actually longer than the stock one?

 

Will this Torque arm also improve autox applications?

 

It's essentially the same length as stock, within an inch or 2.

I can't see how it could possibly hurt in a road race to have the rear suspension under better control. It's not the sort of thing (like ladder bars for example) that just totally wouldn't work. I know in my car it didn't make an enormous difference one way or the other to anything about cornering. LCA reloc brackets however made a HUGE difference: they actually gave the car some bite, both side bite and forward. I put in LCAs first, they helped some by themselves; then later the TA, it tightened up everything quite a bit; then later the LCA brackets, which by that time made the biggest improvement (for the least $$$ of all of my rear susp mods I might add).

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"So many Mustangs, so little time..."
ICON Motorsports

 

I spent a few hours today installing new adjustable LCAs, new adj. PHR and adj. TA w/ driveshaft loops - all from Spohn. I was VERY impressed with the quality of the parts, and how easy they went in. The instructions were also written very clearly, so even somebody who's never done suspension work before could probably do it.

It made a noticable difference in how my car hooks up and handles. IMO, it's worth the $$!

Rick