found some XR stuff...

Came across this on a euro rally site Check it out...

http://www.racedandrallied.com/detail.php?siteid=208&show_still=1

Oscar

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rally gods would turn in their graves if they ever knew Lada's were now part of EU rallying!!!

You could build something simular with stock ford parts from a contour, fixed alxe that is. And you would have the odd sized bearings.

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Scott Manley
Spokane, WA
86' XR4Ti
37

turoc Wrote:
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> Came across this on a euro rally site Check it
> out...
>
>
>
> Oscar

That's for lightweight weenie little kit cars.
The whole spindle hanging out like that is a old school and piss poor design.

The Sierra in both street and rally GpA form have the bearings with the upright much like a FWD car, and have MUCH larger double row angular contact ballbearings in a line more or less from the ball joint to the strut, not hanging out just waiting to shear off.
PLENTY of Mazdas have sheared off the spindles and I have a Volvo strut from Volvo boy Brian in SoCal that shear off a spindle.

Badbad bad bad bad.

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John Vanlandingham
Sleezattle, WA, USA

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john vanlandingham Wrote:
> The Sierra in both street and rally GpA form have
> the bearings with the upright much like a FWD car,

Really? I assume the XR4Ti is like this too?

That is exactly what I'd been looking for. Was even considering
putting something from a FWD or maybe a Subaru on there in order to
get the much better wheel bearing arrangement. I hate stubs with
a passion, never had any luck with them.

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Pete Remner
Cleveland, Ohio

1984 RX-7 (rallycross thing)
1978
Silence is golden, but duct tape is silver.

Pete Wrote:
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> john vanlandingham Wrote:
> > The Sierra in both street and rally GpA form
> have
> > the bearings with the upright much like a FWD
> car,
>
> Really? I assume the XR4Ti is like this too?

Sure.
The details between Xratty, Sierra 2wd, and the 4x4 differ slightly, but they're all more or less like this only in a cast steel thing.
The alloy upright in the drawing here was used for both 2wd and 4wd and for that matter in the F2 RS2000 fwd cars, they just had a centering piece and a bolt rather than a outer CV joint


>
> That is exactly what I'd been looking for. Was
> even considering
> putting something from a FWD or maybe a Subaru on
> there in order to
> get the much better wheel bearing arrangement. I
> hate stubs with
> a passion, never had any luck with them.

They fall off.
>
>
> Pete Remner
> Cleveland, Ohio
> 1985 RX-7 rallycross rustbucket/experimentation
> thingus
> 1984 RX-7 reshell
> 1978

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John Vanlandingham
Sleezattle, WA, USA

Vive le Prole-le-ralliat

www.rallyrace.net/jvab
CALL +1 206 431-9696
Remember! Pacific Standard Time
is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time.

I've been fortunate that I've never broken one, but I've bent a couple, they flex a lot (have pics of car with stupid amounts of positive camber in the front) and they like to wear out where the bearing rides. On the RX-7 it's a major pain in the tail, on the Golf at least it's only a $4 part.

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Pete Remner
Cleveland, Ohio

1984 RX-7 (rallycross thing)
1978
Silence is golden, but duct tape is silver.