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Old Aug 14, 2008 | 05:42 PM
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anybody have any experience with wicked tuning suspension parts? i came across rear camber arms, and front A-arms for a decent price. how do they compare to other companies??
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Old Aug 15, 2008 | 04:52 AM
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no mention of how much camber or toe they correct and they look just like the typical Megan garbage to me....hardly seems worth the effort, especially given their insane MSRP's also. They don't even have pics of the rear stuff, but based on the pic of the front, that is my guess

My recommendation - stick to what's been proven to work over the years
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Old Aug 15, 2008 | 05:18 AM
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and a huge -1 for them calling themselves Wicked and not being from the Boston area....that's just wrong!
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Old Aug 22, 2008 | 07:57 PM
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based on their 240sx stuff I had. I wouldn't recommend it. I almost died using their tie rods. I was driving and the steering got all loose and wobbly, I pulled over and realized that the nuts holding the outter rod had completely fallen apart.

SPL parts ALL THE WAAAAYY.
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Old Aug 22, 2008 | 09:11 PM
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I was looking for some radius arms with heim joints to do away with the rubber bushing on the stock rods. All the expense in these parts goes into the spherical bearings, or heim joints. I saw the radius rods on ebay for $100. So the quality just can't be there. BUT... I was thinking of buying their radius rod and getting a higher quality heim joint to replace their cheap one. Maybe you can do the same.



For camber arms the best you can get is Battle Version. I have their camber arms, and lower control arms, and they are bulletproof. They have high quality heim rod ends.

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Old Aug 23, 2008 | 03:54 PM
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how much are the heim joints? and link to the battle version please!!
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Old Aug 23, 2008 | 05:32 PM
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For the best heim joints you can get cost about $75ea. The Battle Version rods already have pretty good rod ends and they cost $275 pr.

www.battleversion.com

I think www.mynismo.com sells them.

For the front A arms you have to decide what you want. You can get a cheap arm with crappy rubber bushings, or a little better is urethane, but the best are ones with spherical bearings. 350Evo makes the best front A-arm period. They cost $800 per set if I remember correctly. Unlike other companies that use tubular steel, like Nissan OEM the A-arms are forged alumimum.
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Old Aug 24, 2008 | 12:54 PM
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great, thanks. im really setting it up fr roadracing so if you have any other experience with other parts, please let me know. i just picked up a set of jic flt-a2's so i wanna see how well they work out
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Old Jun 5, 2013 | 04:20 AM
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5 years later....
Anyone wanna chime in on their camber arms, since it's been a while?
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Old Jun 14, 2013 | 10:31 PM
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lol 5 years later
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Old Oct 17, 2013 | 05:36 AM
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I was looking I to ordering these can any one please chime in ? lol 5 years later
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