My 1971 Calypso Coral Project

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Re: My 1971 Calypso Coral Project

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Re: My 1971 Calypso Coral Project

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Geometry for your IFS appears to be off.
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Re: My 1971 Calypso Coral Project

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Have double and triple checked it. It 100% straight
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Re: My 1971 Calypso Coral Project

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Looks like your upper control arm has the ball joint almost to the end of it's rotation outward. From all I know control arms parallel to the deck yields a ball joint when at ride height that is perpendicular to the control arm. As it is now from what I can see in the pics if your suspension traveled downward your upper ball joint would have no place to go. This would cause premature failure along with excess stress on the upper control arm. Your lower looks parallel to the deck. You will note the ball joint stud is perpendicular to the deck/control arm.
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Re: My 1971 Calypso Coral Project

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Oh I got what you are saying now. This was taken just to move it out of the shop. There was a lot more adjusting, cutting, welding that went on after the picture was taken.
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Re: My 1971 Calypso Coral Project

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Updates? Calypso Coral is a very nice color! :fr:
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