Spherical bearing retainer for DIY camber plates?

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biggreen96

I love these things, they let me go faster than I should have on wreck creek, I just want to drive around without crazy outside tire wear.

Well Alex ought to love these then, they're on the way, be there Wednesday!

I could tell.
Yeah, have video. Almost finished finally with editing the Max Attack vid and then will put a post up for personal videos here and on SS.

Ok so the parts finally came in, after racereadyproducts.com fucked up my order and having to waste another weekend...

KISS is the motto for these things, mostly because I have a sawzall and a less than stellar drill press.

Plate material is leftover from the cage mounting feet, whatever thickness that is. I doubled up on it so hopefully the plates wont bend. And the bearing cup is welded to the bottom, so it wont come up and through anytime soon.

Bottom:


Top:


And attached to the strut with the mounting studs from the stock top hats pressed in:


Installed view, passenger side.

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I usually get mine from UB Machine.

http://ubmachine.com/monoballhousings.html

Those asses charged me $18 for an ENVELOPE with 2 tiny aluminum spacers(they should have been steel like I ordered!!!) I weighed it, it would have gone with 3 stamps on it. MAD.

So with the strut top pushed in like it is now, and my 10mm lengthened lateral links, I now have... 1.1 degrees of negative camber! ( + or - 7 degrees, I measured using my iPhone)

I put about 25 miles of gravel back roads on them this afternoon, seemed to work ok, they are clunky because the bearing cups are 0.018 taller than the bearings. I hope I can find another spacer to fill that gap.

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Brap Brap.

i just picked up a 90 legacy.
are there any trouble spots i should look for?

Rally Car?

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Brap Brap.

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Rally Car?

thats the plan

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biggreen96
Rally Car?

thats the plan

What's the time line in the plan, Stan?

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i would like to rally the sandblast rally in 2012, even with just a basic car.
last time i ran that event i was in my (now mark bowers) 87 starion esi-r.
if not sandblast then rally wv

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i would like to rally the sandblast rally in 2012, even with just a basic car.
last time i ran that event i was in my (now mark bowers) 87 starion esi-r.
if not sandblast then rally wv

seen the nice suspenders he has for that car now?

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John Vanlandingham
Sleezattle, WA, USA

Vive le Prole-le-ralliat

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CALL +1 206 431-9696
Remember! Pacific Standard Time
is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time.

very nice!

one day i to will have something like that

The only real problem areas I have encountered are in this thread and weak transmissions. But if you aren't going turbo power it's likely fine.

Legacies have liquid filled front a-arm bushings, which I destroyed on my first rally.
The rear wheel wells aren't that big. But if you are using 195s you're fine.
Parts are cheap and plentiful.

No contingency money from Subaru. But that only applies to regional rallies that happen alongside nationals.

I find mine easy to work on.

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Brap Brap.

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The only real problem areas I have encountered are in this thread and weak transmissions. But if you aren't going turbo power it's likely fine.

Legacies have liquid filled front a-arm bushings, which I destroyed on my first rally.
The rear wheel wells aren't that big. But if you are using 195s you're fine.
Parts are cheap and plentiful.

No contingency money from Subaru. But that only applies to regional rallies that happen alongside nationals.

I find mine easy to work on.

so my 225/45-17s are going to be tight in the rear?

i had a fwd 93 legacy way back , it always felt solid

i'll post some pix in couple days of the new project, do you have any more pix of your legacy?

Yeah you might end up needing to trim the inner fender lip.

I have a thread of pics over at legacy central in the motorsports sub forum. I'm biggreen96 all over the Internet.

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Brap Brap.

found your thread very cool, thank you

i had planned on rolling the lips any way

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Ok so the parts finally came in, after racereadyproducts.com fucked up my order and having to waste another weekend...

I put about 25 miles of gravel back roads on them this afternoon, seemed to work ok, they are clunky because the bearing cups are 0.018 taller than the bearings. I hope I can find another spacer to fill that gap.

I would be a little concerned about the poor fit of the uniball in the cup. I usually have to re-machine the cups after they have shrunk from being welded and even then they are a press fit and they have to bottom out completely to get the snapring to seat. If they are loose enough to clack up and down you are running the risk of hammering the snap ring out of the cup and everything else with it.
Wierd that Race Ready messed up too... I order from them quite a bit and I have always been surprised how fast it ships and they have never sent me the wrong thing.