Help!! SPC Toe Bolt to Short

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Old 02-23-2008, 09:30 PM
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Help!! SPC Toe Bolt to Short

Just put on my rear SPC camber arms and toe bolts and the toe bolts are to short. I think the reason is my car has Rear Active Steer and the mounting point for the rear midlink is different than a car without it. I think the mounting point is slightly wider. I had to leave off one of the cam washers in order to get it on. That will work for now but I need a longer bolt. I plan on calling SPC on monday.

Has anyone else had this issue and what did you do for a fix.
 
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Old 02-23-2008, 09:52 PM
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quite a while ago i installed the GTspec rear brace. Later on i got the spc bolt and it was too short. i had to take off the GTspec bar so it would fit. not sure if SPC made a longer bolt. All i needed was about a half inch longer and it would have ben fine.
 
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Old 02-23-2008, 11:04 PM
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thought you had to drill out the hole a bit to get the toe bolt to fit
 
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Old 02-23-2008, 11:13 PM
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thought you had to drill out the hole a bit to get the toe bolt to fit
You have to dill out the hole so you can get more adjustment, has nothing to do with the bolt length
 
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Old 02-25-2008, 07:21 PM
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Originally Posted by G35sedan03
quite a while ago i installed the GTspec rear brace. Later on i got the spc bolt and it was too short. i had to take off the GTspec bar so it would fit. not sure if SPC made a longer bolt. All i needed was about a half inch longer and it would have ben fine.

I called SPC today and they are sending a bolt that is 10mm longer, cars with RAS do require a longer bolt. You could also use that bolt the solve your issue with the GT Spec bar
 
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Old 02-25-2008, 08:03 PM
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I called SPC today and they are sending a bolt that is 10mm longer, cars with RAS do require a longer bolt. You could also use that bolt the solve your issue with the GT Spec bar
That is great to know, did you just call customer service?
 
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Old 02-25-2008, 09:15 PM
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That is great to know, did you just call customer service?

I called their tech support hot line, 1.800.525.6505 and talked to Doug
 
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Old 02-26-2008, 12:20 AM
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yeah that is good to know. wonder if they would do an exchange program....... not!!!!. it would be nice though to just send in the short ones and get the longer ones. 10mm should just cover the length i need.
 
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That is good to know
 
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Old 02-29-2008, 09:30 PM
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Got the longer bolts today from SPC. If any of you are interested the part# is722653
 
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so it took 5 days huh?! oh man, i have the same issue... i called them thursday morning, the guy i spoke to said he's goin to ship out the bolt on that day. so i should expect the bolts on monday? Damn, cant wait to install those bolts, my tires are getting bald already anyways, did you noticed where did the bolts shipped out from?
 
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Old 03-01-2008, 10:42 PM
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anyways, did you noticed where did the bolts shipped out from?


they come from Colorado
 
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Thanks!
 
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Got mine today. $6 a bolt and $8 to ship. $20 for 2 bolts Jeez.

I did notice they are higher grade than the shorter ones. Those were 8.8. The longer ones are 10.9
 


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