Thread: Mustang II narrowed control arms

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Jack's right, when someone says "whole" in a context as you mentioned they're guessing or totally ignorant (which may be the same thing in a way). Although on second reading of your post I see you said "tower" and I'm not sure what you mean by that. We're talking here about both upper and lower control arms, not the crossmember/hat assy.

It won't change static camber, caster, or anti-dive. It will change Ackermann a little, but that's not an absolute spec anyway and will still work well with small deviations from ideal. Caster would be changed slightly in the context of change over the range of motion, likewise camber (though hardly at all). Comparing two different rods that might be similarly equiped can be a bit dicey since no two are ever precisely identicle, but I've driven fairly closely built cars with both and like Jack, could not feel any adverse effect.

If you go to the 5th page of my gallery, the next to last pic is of my '36 in mock up. If you look closely you can see the front wheel has a fair bit of negative offset (2 1/4" back space on a 6" wide wheel if I remember correctly) and the tire is still well tucked into the fender.