PuppiesBalls
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 posted on 14/3/10 at 12:41 PM |
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Which front hubs, sierra hubs are no good :(
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
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TigerB6 Paul
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| posted on 14/3/10 at 12:45 PM |
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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]
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designer
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| posted on 14/3/10 at 02:52 PM |
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Which hubs was the car designed to use?
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britishtrident
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| posted on 14/3/10 at 03:08 PM |
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The geometry with Sierra parts is probably better than the Cortinas for a light car.
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stevebubs
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| posted on 14/3/10 at 03:14 PM |
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Would the "Gent" be Rob Farley?
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PuppiesBalls
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| posted on 14/3/10 at 04:32 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by stevebubs
Would the "Gent" be Rob Farley?
Maybe 
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PuppiesBalls
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| posted on 14/3/10 at 04:41 PM |
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quote:
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]
The wishbones will have to be replaced as there not wide enough, the previous owner has put 30mm spacers to bring the wheels level with the arches
which im not comfortable keeping.
I am having to change the front brakes too as the rears are bigger than the front.
The gent who advised the escort or alloy hubs races his Stylus so he must know his stuff
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Peteff
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| posted on 14/3/10 at 04:42 PM |
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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.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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PuppiesBalls
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| posted on 14/3/10 at 04:44 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by designer
Which hubs was the car designed to use?
originally escorts uprights then they changed to the sierra & then apperently stopped the sierra & went back to the escort ones
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philw
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| posted on 14/3/10 at 04:58 PM |
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Won't you have to use longer rocker arms aswell as modified wishbones?
Must try harder
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PuppiesBalls
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| posted on 14/3/10 at 05:00 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by philw
Won't you have to use longer rocker arms aswell as modified wishbones?
Yep otherwise I will have a humerous amount of camber
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philw
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| posted on 14/3/10 at 05:01 PM |
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I did chuckle to myself after i posted that, should have asked if you already had the different rocker arms?
Must try harder
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StevieB
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| posted on 14/3/10 at 07:32 PM |
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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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PuppiesBalls
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| posted on 14/3/10 at 11:38 PM |
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quote:
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.
Tell me more
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