Good afternoon gents!
I brought a SSC Stylus RT kit car built & I am basicly stripping the whole thing down & rebuilding it from scrach (because im a plonker
lol)
I spoke a gent who also owns this car & he said that my front hubs were from a sierra & basicly there pants and I would struggle to get a good
suspension setup with them.
He advised either escort hubs or alloy ones
Does anybody know where I could get either from & are the alloy hubs worth the extra money?
Thanks dudes 
Ignore him - the geometry is not perfect but plenty of cars work just fine with them. If you're not racing is it really worth a total redesign of
your front suspension??
You'd be looking at well North of £1000 to convert anyway!!! MNR do a Cortina upright kit to which you'd then need hubs, bearings, brakes
etc.
Ask the guy who said you'd never get a good set-up if he's had his car's geometry properly aligned, corner weighted, and his dampers
valved to suit the weight by a professional. I bet if all that was done properly that you'd run rings around his car in the handling stakes with
your crappy Sierra uprights.
[Edited on 14/3/10 by TigerB6 Paul]
Which hubs was the car designed to use?
The geometry with Sierra parts is probably better than the Cortinas for a light car.
Would the "Gent" be Rob Farley?
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Originally posted by stevebubs
Would the "Gent" be Rob Farley?
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Originally posted by TigerB6 Paul
Ignore him - the geometry is not perfect but plenty of cars work just fine with them. If you're not racing is it really worth a total redesign of your front suspension??
You'd be looking at well North of £1000 to convert anyway!!! MNR do a Cortina upright kit to which you'd then need hubs, bearings, brakes etc.
Ask the guy who said you'd never get a good set-up if he's had his car's geometry properly aligned, corner weighted, and his dampers valved to suit the weight by a professional. I bet if all that was done properly that you'd run rings around his car in the handling stakes with your crappy Sierra uprights.
[Edited on 14/3/10 by TigerB6 Paul]
Don't the originals use a cut down Escort or Capri McPherson strut with the stub axle built in ? You should be able to get them still and cut the top down to take a ball joint.
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Originally posted by designer
Which hubs was the car designed to use?
Won't you have to use longer rocker arms aswell as modified wishbones?
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Originally posted by philw
Won't you have to use longer rocker arms aswell as modified wishbones?
I did chuckle to myself after i posted that, should have asked if you already had the different rocker arms?
Geometry wise, the sierra can be adjusted in far more ways if using a mushroom insert with an offset for the top ball joint, as you can adjust the KPI as well as camber and toe - you can also adjust castor with a bit of jiggery pokery.
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Originally posted by StevieB
Geometry wise, the sierra can be adjusted in far more ways if using a mushroom insert with an offset for the top ball joint, as you can adjust the KPI as well as camber and toe - you can also adjust castor with a bit of jiggery pokery.
