CDsDontBurn
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I'll tell you first, that there really aren't any front adjustable UCA's. There is however an adjustable upper ball joint available thru several manufacturers (like Moog, AC Delco and others). The Ball joints themselves (each) cost more than a complete UCA (or a pair of UCA's from Detroit Axle). If this is to fix a camber wear issue, you might want to look at replacing the uppers with standard parts, and then doing the lowers with standard parts. This should get you close to stock spec.
It's also what I'm looking at doing on my wife's car, as the toe in is on the money, but it's wearing the inner 1 inch of tread on both front tires. But then at 238K, it's probably more than due for parts replacement. On hers, I'm looking at doing the lowers first.
I replaced the UCA's on my 99, but I was also in there doing other work, and had the entire front end apart at the time. The only thing extra that I had to do was remove the strut assembly on both sides to get to the bolts. Note; those bolts just screw into the surrounding metal around the strut tower. I was mainly replacing the ball joints on my own car, which is why I swapped out the UCA's. The uppers and lowers were shot on mine (very sloppy).
You can't use offset bolts here either, as you'd have no way of locking them down. If you could find some offset UCA bushings, and combined it with an adjustable upper ball joint, then you'd have something to work with. However, I didn't see any offset bushings offered anywhere, not even e-bay.
I hope this helps.
I came across this one site by happenstance, www.heeltoeauto.com. They seem to have the Ingalls Engineering UCAs I was searching for.
There's always the ACDelco (LEFT / RIGHT) stuff I was I was looking at after you said that there aren't any aftermarket adjustable control arms out there. The ACDelco stuff is FAR cheaper than the Ingalls stuff. And the cheapest I've seen the Honda OEM stuff is the same price as the Ingalls stuff. So basically, if I'm going for spendy, I'll get the Ingalls adjustable units, but if I'm going for cheap and reliable aftermarket, I'll go with ACDelco.
Like I said before, I just don't want to have my front tires' inner camber chewed up faster than necessary.
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