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So am I understanding correctly that ANY extended ball joint is going to be weaker than the oem design because of the shear/twisting combination Don describes above?
I was about to pull the trigger on the Steeda extended ball joint and bump steer kit described in Billy Johnson's project, above, but you guys are causing me to rethink. I have a daily driver '11 GT with Cortex coilovers, running 200tw tires, sees 5-10 HPDE events a year, but I run at tracks here in the Northeast with very limited runoffs and cliffs. Broken ball joint is end of the car or worse. So this discussion is climbing in my head.
I am comfortable with maintenance and checking for wear but these reports of random shear failures are spooking me.
I understand everyone's risk tolerance is different but would you consider extended ball joints perhaps not worth the risk for recreational HPDE drivers such as myself? The way you guys are talking, these shear failures with extended ball joints don't appear to be a super isolated occurrence.
I was about to pull the trigger on the Steeda extended ball joint and bump steer kit described in Billy Johnson's project, above, but you guys are causing me to rethink. I have a daily driver '11 GT with Cortex coilovers, running 200tw tires, sees 5-10 HPDE events a year, but I run at tracks here in the Northeast with very limited runoffs and cliffs. Broken ball joint is end of the car or worse. So this discussion is climbing in my head.
I am comfortable with maintenance and checking for wear but these reports of random shear failures are spooking me.
I understand everyone's risk tolerance is different but would you consider extended ball joints perhaps not worth the risk for recreational HPDE drivers such as myself? The way you guys are talking, these shear failures with extended ball joints don't appear to be a super isolated occurrence.