With this being the venue to show off your latest components, QA1 displayed lots of parts this year – including their recently released Mopar A-, B-, and E-body front suspension components. Designed to complement each other, or to combine with factory front suspension components, the solidly build parts enhance the ride and control of the front end of these Mopars.
Marketing Manager Kaitlyn Nelson said, “We wanted to showcase our Mopar components, and felt that the best way to do it was to have the front end of a car in the booth with our components installed.” So they had found a wrecked A-body, stripped it down, and gave it a nice coat of white paint and brought it to SEMA this year.
These front end components include a new tubular K-member, tubular upper and lower control arms, dynamic strut rods, and new hardware that includes a camber bolt kit and torsion bar adjusters. While all of these components work great together, they also work with the factory components, as well.
The upper control arms have .5 degrees of negative camber and 3 degrees of caster built in, allowing you to make adjustments that help improve handling. The lower control arms are stronger than the factory arms, but are also lighter. The dynamic strut rods do away with the rubber bushing found on the K-member of the stock strut rod, and replaces it with a solid mount and Heim-joint, which keeps the alignment of the lower control arm in place, removing the sloppiness found in worn rubber bushings.
All of these components bolt to the stock K-member, as well as their tubular K-member – which lightens up the front end, creates more header clearance, but still bolts in place just like the stock K-member. Add to these components a set of single-adjustable shocks from QA1 and you’re on your way to a better handling Mopar that is far better than stock.
You can find these, and more components, at QA1’s web site now, but keep checking back because we spoke to one of the engineers at QA1, Corey Meyer, and while he couldn’t tell us exactly what to expect, he did tell us that there are more components to come in the near future.