They are installed. I am very impressed with them so far. Instructions were excellent. They specified orientation, how much maximum thread on the heims should be exposed on the chassis side and they included 3 power steering reservoir bolts which added a nice touch. Install took about an hour on the driver side which is where I started and about a half hour on the passenger side. Very straight-forward install.

These arms are MUCH beefier than the stock cast arms. They are also much heavier due to this. The poly bushings has increased the NVH on the car slightly, but nothing my fiance noticed.

Overall I am very pleased especially for the price compared to other arms on the market.

My final opinion will be drawn once I go have the car aligned on Wednesday, but as of now don't foresee any issues whatsoever.

And now for the pics:

 

Is there a way to adjust caster on those arms w/ various ball joint orientations??
Looking good BTW.

 

I don't believe so. It can move towards the car or away from the car, but not offset towards the front or rear of the car. Nothing worse than the stock arms, but I do know other brands like the SPC's do have the bushing to offset the tie rod to adjust caster. I actually used the SPC install video on YouTube to install these. We'll see how the alignment goes.

 

Wow those do look great! Thank you for being the first! I'll definitely be getting these. Eventually. lol

Let us know how the alignment goes!

Was it easy enough matching lengths etc. of these to the stock arms so your alignment isn't too out of spec before you go get it done?

 

It was as simple as laying the new arms next to the old and making adjustments. I know it's not exact, but it'll be fine to get the car to the alignment shop.

One tip: Make sure you grease these things up well. Apparently I didn't. I am getting some creaking from the front end and I believe it's due to the poly bushings. Will find out more tomorrow.

 

Got the car aligned and everything went very well. The guys at the alignment shop were more than happy to work on the car as everything was easily serviceable and none of the bolts were locked up.

One problem I am still having is how noisy these bushings are. I have the street versions with the Energy Suspension poly bushings which are advertised as making minimal noise. The instructions say they come pre-lubed and should be installed as they come. Not sure if mine were forgotten to be lubed, but there is some serious noise. I called up Z1 today and spoke with Brad. I'm going to pull the arms back off and re-lube them everywhere. If that doesn't get rid of a majority of the noise I'm going to send them back. I really hope it doesn't come down to that as this car is my DD and that process would be a complete PITA.

If anyone has any other ideas I'm all ears. Keep in mind I had the coilovers on the car for about 3-4 weeks before I bought and installed these FUCA's. I am positive this noise is the control arm bushings.

 

Thanks for the updates. Too bad about the noise coming from these. Hopefully it's just as you said. Needs more lube. Let us know what happens. Good luck!

 

Sorry that you're having those noise issues, seems like they're all set up for easy lubrication too. Hopefully a bit more lube and some time to get it worked in will solve it. G/L and keep us posted.

 

To clarify, I'm not unhappy with the arms. But they are advertised as minimal noise which is not the case as of now. I think this is something that can be fixed with greasing, but I wish the instructions would have called that out to begin with. I'm not sure if the 370z is any different how these mount, but now looking back there's no way these things will ever be quiet without some grease where the bushings meet the body mounts.

 

Good luck without a cover over that rod end joint

 

I'll be going with SPL upper control arms..changing out my rear SPC camber arms with SPL as well

 

jfisher, any update on the noise issue? I just ordered the race set from Z1.