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    Higher strength and a much larger range of motion.

    One of the things I do think they need to improve on these arms is to put the uniball at a slight angle...At normal ride height (the picture with the tire) you can see the angle it's already on; so it could benefit benefit from being rotated similar to the JBA/RRO/etc arms.



    With this picture at full drop it looks maxed out. I'd rotate that uniball mount at least to where the red lines are.



    One of the other things I'm happy to see is the use of larger bushings as opposed to the stock ones.

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    Here's a good example of how they need to make the angle. These are the HM Engineering arms that Omelette is running.









    Honestly I like the bulk/square/beefy look of the AM (American Motorsports) arms better; kind of reminds me of the lines of the XK ...but they do have a bit of tweaking to do. In their E-mail they seemed very open to improvements... so hopefully they take kindly to the constructive criticism.

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    The first thing I noticed when I looked at the picture was that the angle of where the uni-ball is mounted needs to be angled. I love my JBA and wouldn't change to a Uni-ball but like you said its nice knowing there are other options out there
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    Yeah I doubt id recommend going from JBA to AM. But for someone who wants to upgrade stock arms, more/different options are great.

    Im also intrigued on where AM got the idea to make wk arms. .... maybe an employee there wanted a set? Might be a lucky break for the wk/xk market if they'd consider making other products too

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