Strong and safe enough?

[wickedmotorhead]

I sure as hell wouldn't trust putting constant lateral loads on that aluminum cross shaft without some proven testing like some FEA(including fatigue) and some true mileage put on them. And seriously what does aerospace quality aluminum really even mean anymore, tell us the grade if its so special. The others are either running high strength 4000 series steel or expensive stainless steels like 17-4 for good reason.

But for straight like stuff like drag racing it would be fine, like their note says. FYI: Global West offers both, aluminum for drag racing and steel for the street.

Shane

[Marktat]

The others are either running high strength 4000 series steel or expensive stainless steels like 17-4 for good reason.

Who has them in stainless steel? That would be nice.

[wickedmotorhead]

DSE uses stainless but they are proprietary to their control arms and not for use with the stock ones.

[Marktat]

DSE uses stainless but they are proprietary to their control arms and not for use with the stock ones.

Yep, found out earlier today when I called DSE. Anyone make these in stainless for use with my original A-arms.

[MuscleRodz]

Who has them in stainless steel? That would be nice.

Well If you look in Speedtech's store right next to the aluminum ones are the stainless ones.

Mike

[silver69camaro]

And seriously what does aerospace quality aluminum really even mean anymore, tell us the grade if its so special.

It actually means nothing about it's strength, it never did. It's just used as a marketing term because it sounds trick. Some aerospace applications require a strong, fatigue-resistant aluminum, some don't. Which one are you getting? What were their metrics when choosing a material? Something to ask them, anyway.