Building the final A-arms, more similar to the original design made with U shaped steel. I still want to strengten the bends for safety, the bending and welding has weakened the material.

It took me 6 hours for every A-arm I build it is all about measuring and measuring again. I wanted the sidewall of the tires to stick out 5 mm from the fender for the best look (the thread pattern is then well within the fender), and also give the wheels negative camber that they originally don't have without using a lot of shims that means the lower arms are lenghtened more than the upper. The camber is perfect now  (2 degrees negative) with the shims that were there originally, without the ones I added over 10 years ago 1 week after buying the car. Only need to check castor angle, the same shimms should go back in the same spot but so much has happened it could need flipping shims. It should be so much in spec though that moving 1 upper and/or 1 lower from front to back should do it. 

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