[TPR] Extended A arms

[DENNIS ANTENUCCI]

Yo My Peeps,

Want all of you considering joining us next year be it an open track or road race to give consideration to gaining added front caster to improve high speed handling. I have 3-4 now and it is probably the most significant improvement of any of the handling modifications I have made in 25 years. 

Want to thank Mike Drew and Johnny Woods for sharing with us. We know this thing we do is dangerous and I never take any of the risks for granted.

Read it ALL carefully and please add your comments. 

I don’t claim to know all the answers so thanks for all your support. This is all about sharing what we know and what we have learned.

Hoping there are some skinny jeaned bun wearing millennials out there who will want to follow us in the future. 

Good Times

Dennis

Sent from my iPhone

Begin forwarded message:

> From: John Woods <johnnyrwoods at aol.com>
> Date: September 21, 2021 at 6:52:15 AM PDT
> To: MikeLDrew at aol.com, TEAMPANTERA at yahoo.com
> Subject: Re: Extended A arms
> Reply-To: John Woods <johnnyrwoods at aol.com>
> 
> 
> Hi Mike, Dennis,
> 
> I can do the arms. I charge £400 for the service, this includes a welded-on camber lock adjuster.
> The cost to ship the arms back to you is £42.50
> 
> Please make sure you mark the value way down when you ship them to me because we will have to pay something to HMRC when they arrive. I can theoretically I can claim this back as I am returning them to you, but it's so much paperwork it's not worth my time.
> 
> With original ball joints it is possible to get 7 degrees of castor, but I have found  in the past Wilkinson's new ball joints don't have quite as mush sideways movement (misalignment) so 6 degrees may be more realistic with new joints; unless they vary from batch to batch?
> 
> What mod do they do to the rear arms, Mike?
> 
> Regards, Johnny
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Drew <mikeldrew at aol.com>
> To: DENNIS ANTENUCCI <teampantera at yahoo.com>; johnny at harlywax.co.uk
> Sent: Tue, 21 Sep 2021 3:33
> Subject: Re: Extended A arms
> 
> Dennis,
> 
> Good hearing from you!
> 
> Yes Pat Mical taught Johnny Woods how to do the upper front A-arm modification. It’s not extended—you are thinking of the rear A-arms. Instead, the back leg is straightened. That allows much more caster. 
> 
> Ordinarily you would have to ship him your A-arms which he would convert and ship back to you, which would all take time.  As luck would have it, I happen to have a set of his already modified arms sitting on my shelf. I could send them to you, you could send your old ones to him, he could modify those and then send them to me. And you would pay him for the conversion and shipping and pay me nothing. His does that sound?
> 
> Mike
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
> > On Sep 21, 2021, at 07:57, DENNIS ANTENUCCI <teampantera at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Hey Brotha
> > 
> > How ya doing? Doing great and Asa and I driving back from SSCC road race where I averaged 144.
> > 
> > One thing I am interested in doing is increasing caster to 6-7 + improve high speed stability. What is your take on that? 
> > 
> > Who sells them and what is cost? I have the offset bushings but all I have is 4-5. Its a bug improvement over stock but at 150++ it could use more. 
> > 
> > So until my C8 arrives share your genius. 
> > Pat Mical and Johnny Woods were names Doc Engles mentioned to me.
> > 
> > Dennis
> > 
> > Sent from my iPhone
> 
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