Lou Gigliotti Motorsports Torque Arm


I bought it used and the holes were badly mis-shapen.


George at TTP welded up the hole and redrilled a new hole


It just barely clears my lakewood driveshaft loop.


Here is the rod-end which allows bind-free movement.


I used 1.5 inch long bolts to attach the torque arm to the rear, except for the upper rearmost position; i used the stock 1 inch bolt for that.

Flat washers and lock washers were used to prevent the bolts from loosening. Loctite and 90 ft/lbs were also used on the bolts.


UPDATE: 10/4/2003

The torque arm broke on its first pass:


So i sent the broken torque arm back to Lou Gigliotti to be repaired. He sent me a new one free of charge :)

However, it needed to be modifed to fit the 12 bolt rear-end:




Due to the above modifications, the support gussets had to be trimmed, and have weakened the unit. My next modification to this torque arm will be too weld in new support gussets in between the bolt holes. Stay tuned....


George did his magic again:



However, I'm still concerned that the plates are only 1/8 inch thick steel. The BMR unit is about 3/8 thick!!!

 

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