{"id":1228,"date":"2012-05-20T22:07:56","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T05:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/?p=1228"},"modified":"2012-05-21T13:50:15","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T20:50:15","slug":"call-to-arms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/?p=1228","title":{"rendered":"Call to arms"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steering arms, in this case.<\/p>\n

For some time, been scouring the internet looking for a pair of original Z28 outer steering arms for the Camaro.\u00a0 These are extremely hard to find, and not currently reproduced.\u00a0 (Same story goes for the chrome portions of the ’67 vent windows, if anybody has a pair in good shape, please let me know).<\/p>\n

David Pozzi put together as close to a complete detailing of Camaro steering components as exists on the internet here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I now have three pairs of outer steering arms-<\/p>\n

\"3<\/a><\/p>\n

The leftmost\u00a0arm is from Speedway Motors<\/a>,\u00a0which they are claimed would be shorter\/faster than manual steer arms.\u00a0 Their product description:<\/p>\n

Don’t know if you ever thought about this or not, but the steering arms on some cars were a different length depending if they were power or manual steering. The manual cars had a longer arm and if you convert them to power steering you still have slow steering. These forged arms are shorter (faster) than manual steering arms<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The middle arm is one I had on the car at purchase.\u00a0 The car was manual steer, and the state of everything gave me no reason to think any of those components had ever been changed.<\/p>\n

The right arm is the more recent addition.<\/p>\n

Used two 1\/2″ rods to keep the arms aligned.\u00a0 Measurement is from the rear of the farthest hole.\u00a0 Angle on the square is up at 2″, so the actual distance measured is 2″ less than appears on the ruler.\u00a0 I’m looking at the distance from the “back” of the rearmost hole, to the “front” of the\u00a0tie rod\u00a0hole, maximizing the distance.\u00a0 Working back from right to left on actual lengths-<\/p>\n

Rightmost arm:\u00a08 1\/8″\u00a0 (part number 3954876)<\/p>\n

\"Steering<\/a><\/p>\n

Middle arm:\u00a08 5\/8″ (part number 3916266)<\/p>\n

\"Manual<\/a><\/p>\n

Leftmost arm: 9 1\/8″ (Speedway part number 91034912)<\/p>\n

\"Speedway<\/a><\/p>\n

Tsk tsk on Speedway – their arms are longer<\/em> than manual steer arms!\u00a0 There is a clear 1\/2″ difference in length with each arm.\u00a0 If Speedway had made their arms shorter than manual steer arms, they’d be just fine, but they did the opposite.<\/p>\n

Why the fuss over 1\/2″?\u00a0 A few reasons-<\/p>\n