widening suspension

so, 72-93 dodge fullsizes have a pretty crappy front suspension setup. the 87-96 dakotas are very similar. but they use a triangulated lower arms and a rack and pinion. the 91-96 also had the same small block dodge engines available in them. so im in the planning stages for my dodge, and im thinking about starting with a dakota front clip and making a backhalf from there. but, it would be a retardedly over narrow track width. so im wondering, would there be any problems with making new controls for each side that are say 3" longer? or whatever the distance they need to be longer becomes. just use a stock style balljoint. round or square tube. nothing fancy. just clean and simple. i realize it would make less camber change, and more travel given the same bag location on the lower arm. is there any bad side effects im not aware of?

instead of making wider control arms just move the frame rails out and make a wider engine cross member...

Dodge dakotas have terrible camber.  The arms are short to begin with.  I think everything will be fine if you lenghten the control arms correctly.

yeah, if i was going to widen the frame i would just put the dakota lower arms onto my frame and us the rack. but, my engine crossmember and steering are rediculous. chris, thank you for the info. i have a set of dakota drop spindles. truck will be bodied on like a 29" tire. so, it could be 22s someday. or it could stay 15s. whatever. diameter is diameter. lol.  any other info is much helpful. thanks everyone.

I seen a sqaure body dakota with 20's in the front and it had bad camber and ate front tires like no tomorrow.

The only thing that gets stupid when lengthening arms on stock suspension is the factory induced caster-gain. You can't just simply lengthen the arms and bolt them on. it's really tough to explain what's going on tho.

is there any way in the redesign process to counter act any of that? maybe have the front clip tipped forward or back to change the base caster to compensate for the caster-gain?

Not really. It can be ok, it's all in how it's done.