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Originally Posted by Marphie21
I believe that its highly recommended (pretty much necessary to run the aftermarket control arms with sphericals, or get the spherical bushing conversion for oem RLCAs. The relocation of the pickup point creates binding if youre not using sphericals.
There a guy on youtube that installed a complete gktech package on his car and even with the sphericals, the bushings are already at a weird angle.
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The sphericals are aligned like that because of the way the arm is constructed. it's the same way on the wisefab lower arm.
You might be able to get away with swapping out the lower control arm bushings to spherical bearings, but I've never messed with it myself. There will definitely be some binding in the stock bushings as the bolts for the inner bushings now point in different angles. You could probably dremel out the rear holes so the arm was straight, then weld some washers onto the mount with the arm bolted in place so everything is lined up correctly. Does that make sense?
I know the next subframe I reinforce I'm definitely doing with the arms installed. Installing wisefab was a giant PITA after I welded everything up.