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Happy Sunday everyone! The next project has come along great: making custom control arms for the Rally Miata! These are constructed by 1" .125 DOM tube. Polyurethane bushing on the outside, 7/16" heim joints on the inside! With the addition of the heim joints the control arms are able to be adjusted WAY more than the stock setup, allowing us to get the proper alignment in the car. The tubing makes the control arm significantly stronger and slightly lighter too! I built a jig off the old control arms, then bent up the tubing, notched stuff, and welded it all together! The whole process was quite easy but incredibly time consuming. Since these are control arms every measurement, bend, weld has to be PERFECT because its holding up the entire car. I'm super happy with the results. The question is: what color do we get them powdercoated? Simple gloss black? Or something more exciting like red or white? Let me know your thoughts!

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Jacob Skaalen

I think either white or yellow. Something that would match well with the blue that could be applied to a few other spots later

Pietro Ghedini

Gold colored would be sick, white would be very on theme with all the tubing being white

Fabi

White would be awesome

VitalSAM

Black, they only going to get dirty and black anyway

Kgfhtj

White , like the inside and engine bay

Tony Rantz

Wow Caleb! You're becoming quite a seasoned professional with fabrication...if you ever decided to make it a business doing welding and fabrication it would definitely be positive for your channel. And working with other YouTube creators like Tavarish from Florida would be fascinating to say the least! If you add a bronze color to those I think it would be cool. Best wishes!

loubé eyoum

Black would feel boring, I think both white and red would suit it well

IceStorm0310

Definitely white, but harder to clean, black would be more practical whereas red would clash or just make it look like 'Merica

Langston Major

a textured black would look great. gloss black can be boring.

help Walker

Good job it is coming along great, starting to become a really cool rally car. for the color I think white is a good idea because it would go good with the color theme and plus all the tubes white will look awesome.

Fabi

Fuck yeah

Siedah J Haynes

Did u see the aux beam lighting ad on FB featuring the rally Miata???

Harrison remedios

A deep candy red would look really good on all the suspension components. Better than black and much easier to keep up than white

Gingium

Yep! I think white is the way to go.

Gingium

I just saw it! Pretty cool seeing on such a big page.

Gingium

Thanks man! I was really proud of these. I think I've gotten to the point where I'm actually super happy with everything I build and I could actually make a business out of it if I wanted to!

Gingium

I think I decided white. There is already a lot of black on the car and the white is a little lacking! Plus it'll be super easy to clean since its a gloss powder coat. I could even wax them before I install them lol.

Marijn Donders

Red is very cool, but seeing as you already have orange on the coilovers, that might be cool too!

George

Yeeees orange would be sick

Jay McSpin

White powder coat should look very nice

Ding Dong Drift

Won't you lose caster adjustment by not having a ball joint on the bottom? Looks freaking sick though.