How To: Mazda Front Bag Setup

You did an awesome job on your setup man, so I thought it would be helpful to show everyone..

it is very helpful and I learned alot....placement and such....I apparently am going to be digging BIG into mikeys build thread as seeing 17s are my path to rolling stock...I want lil or no camber perferably as it will continue to be a daily for me for a long time to came....and I know I wanna keep some form of fenderwell in there as well....I have no plans on BD anytime soon or in a foreseeable future.....while it looks cool, just not for me right now....but this was a VERY helpful insight to a alot of stuff I had questions and concerns about.....still lil unclear on flipping of BJ's but I am sure once I stick my head inside of my underside it will become more clear.

Thanks Dev! and all those that have had their pics/trucks added in for the write up/tech..thank you as well for providing for us new people that are about to enter the world of bagged!

theres a how to about flipping the ball joints too man. . . check the tech article section



-Josh

does anybody have pictures of how they installed shocks with their bag set-up? also maybe the triangulation of the lca

Thanks Josh...I was looking at it also...I need new BJ's anyways so flip time will come right about then...just seen my intake has a huge rip in it also...god love a WELL TAKEN CARE OF truck...the more I dig into this truck, the more I wanna beat the crap outta the guy that sold it to me...I seriously overpayed

what are the chances of my truck passin a v.i. without the front sway bar? planning to possibly move to the us and need it to pass sorta so....

more than likely you will but what all is done to your truck

Cheers for the writeup

You will have something that looks like this:



Now, referring to the above picture. Everything within the white square will need to be cut out flush with the frame. DO NOT cut into the frame, just flush/parallel. You will want to plate it back up for strength. The white cut-out on the Lower Arm will need to be cut out, so it does not hit the frame during travel.

After you cut that out it should resemble something close to this:



Now we are ready to place the bag bracket. We are using a Front Torsion Bag Bracket Kit. They look something like this:





anyone have pics or what needs to be plated up i looked threw alot of pics and i cant tell whats been reinforced can someone please help on this part also i ordered the bracket kit and was reading in this topic that something about being level what needs to be level the upper bracket with the frame rail?? also says to notch out the lower arm to prevent binding up will i have to do this im running 17 inch escalade wheels on 205/40/17 tires and would i have to flip the balljoints?? or would i be fine?? also on the sway bar and front shock can i get rid of all this when the front bags are installed?? or do i have to have shocks in the front any pics would be greatly appreciated thanks everyone

Could some of you guys take pics of your front suspension setups. This truck is gonna and is my daily. I would like to keep and/or relocate the shocks and the swaybar. This write up has a ton of great info for a noob like me, but I cannot afford to bung up my truck. I am not so much concerned with layin the frame, though that would be a plus. I am going to run an 18in wheel with a 225/35/18.