RA60 control arm and ae86 strut

[schubey]

Hey

My Ke70 is currentaly running coilovers made from RA60 struts and RA60 control arms.

Ive bought a set of ae86 coilovers and brakes. Will they work with the celeca control arm?
Is it worth/ neccessary getting a stock ae86 or ketto control arms ?


cheers

[Todd]

they will work fine yes. however they will throw out the front end geometry too far (the ra40 lca's are +30mm track or so?) and will make things awkward. just get some ke70 or ae86 ones. they are cheap anyway.

[Hen may possibly be a nut]

Are you sure Todd? AFAIK RA40 were the same as XT130 (~10mm longer than AE86). Though I know not if RA60 are the same. I'd say try it and see, I wouldn't be surprised if they worked fine.

The only thing to be careful of is RA60 struts have 90mm bolt spacing in the bottom, while AE86 struts have 85mm spacing. So your current steering arms will not suit the new struts. You'll need AE86 (preferable power steering of course) steering arms.

Hen

[Todd]

sorry i stand corrected Hen, you are right :)
i didnt even think as i was answering the question. just put it in the celica/ra60 category and thought no more.

isn't that embarassing.

[Skylar]

I did measure RA60 lca's a while ago when I got them and I think they were 300mm balljoint to pivot bolt, same as corolla. I can go and measure it if you'd like.

[Javal]

Are you sure Todd? AFAIK RA40 were the same as XT130 (~10mm longer than AE86). Though I know not if RA60 are the same. I'd say try it and see, I wouldn't be surprised if they worked fine.

The only thing to be careful of is RA60 struts have 90mm bolt spacing in the bottom, while AE86 struts have 85mm spacing. So your current steering arms will not suit the new struts. You'll need AE86 (preferable power steering of course) steering arms.

Hen

RA60 arms are the same length as xE7x and AE86. I cannot confirm that RA40 arms are the same as XT130 arms.

[schubey]

ah you guys are awesome.You just saved me 55 bucks and a long drive.
I will now be using the RA60 control arms with my new ae86 coilovers and JDM brakes ready to be installed this weekend :D

thanks again.

[squish_m8]

RA60 arms are the same length as xE7x and AE86. I cannot confirm that RA40 arms are the same as XT130 arms.

RA40 arms are the same as XT130's :) (10mm longer than ae86/*e7*)

[marvis]

Told you :)

[schubey]

lol thanks marvis.

[schubey]

just a head up. The control arms might be the same lengh.But when its time to put a ae86 power steering arm on a RA60 control arm's ball joint, it wont work.
The hole on the RA60 steering arm is way bigger when the ae86 hole and thus the ball joint pin in thicker and wont go into the PS arm.

So ae71/ke70 or ae86 control arms are needed. Wont work with ra60 control arms
:)

[bigm]

different ball-joints?

[marvis]

Sucks.

I have some here.

[schubey]

different ball-joints?

yeah, the ra60 was to big.


Thanks marvis, but turns out we had afew kicking around :)

[trikzlane]

sub, get some xt130 LCA

[Hen may possibly be a nut]

If the balljoints in your LCAs don't fit your AE86 arms then you don't have RA60 arms. I've played with RA60 stuff (well SA63 to be precise) before and balljoints matched. Also you can cross-reference in the PAJA balljoint catalogue (Google for it) if you want to double check.

Bigger RWD Toyotas of that era (Cressidas, Supras, etc) ran a bigger balljoint (BJ232). This definitely won't fit, but coincidentally does match S13 hubs.

Hen