Hey K'Gowski, Were Makin 50mm JVAB suspenders for the Focus
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Andrew Frick
Eventually yes. It seems like a great route for simplicity of design, weight, cleanliness and spares availability. Not to mention travel and strength. Mike B Yes that's my car. The setup as you listed is correct. Poly bushings in the s link. The other car runs an identical setup. Riley As you can see from the pics the stock trailing arms have been thoroughly reinforced. |
Riley steen Mod Moderator Location: Fargo ND Join Date: 07/10/2014 Posts: 67 Rally Car: Focus ZX3 |
Riley steen Mod Moderator Location: Fargo ND Join Date: 07/10/2014 Posts: 67 Rally Car: Focus ZX3 |
Andrew Kulikowski Ultra Moderator Location: Ontario, Canada Join Date: 03/31/2012 Age: Settling Down Posts: 25 Rally Car: 2000 Focus ZX3 |
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Mike Ball Godlike Moderator Location: Simi Valley,Ca. Join Date: 07/15/2011 Age: Ancient Posts: 466 Rally Car: Nope...I wish...RWD 2 Door Jeep XJ 4.0 5-spd Dirt-o-cross car(we have no grass!)2.3 ZX3 rallyx car(sold) |
Andrew K.-just curious if you've ever cycled the rear suspension without the coilover installed and if there is binding?
If you research a little on the rear control blade when ford designed it with those thin stampings-they had reasons. Besides being cheap-asses, and wanting good rear cargo space,Ford used those thin bendable stampings because they wanted passive rear steer, and they got it with the geometry and different lengths and angles of all the arms and the fact the trailing arm could bend somewhat. Now I'm not saying we give a crap about having passive rear steer(especially on dirt),but I'm wondering how much(maybe trivial?) binding is going on with retaining the stock geometry and stiffening everything? That's kinda why I always like the Burmeister set-up pictured above... Oh and he hasn't posted for a while here,but I added a pic another Foci rally rear suspension style, as seen in this build thread(He's running Jvabs): http://www.focusfanatics.com/forum/showthread.php?t=324166 ................................................. ..................... Support your Local North American Rally Forum!! While they are still around-and get the hell off Farsebook!! We still have Specialstage & RallyAnarchy. Post up Here: https://rallyanarchy.com/phorum/posting.php and here: https://www.specialstage.com/forums/forum.php |
Andrew Kulikowski Ultra Moderator Location: Ontario, Canada Join Date: 03/31/2012 Age: Settling Down Posts: 25 Rally Car: 2000 Focus ZX3 |
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