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Spherical bearing upper mounts



Wanting swap out the stock style plates while my car is down and go coilover. How much for a set of the complete upper mounts/bearing plates to fit with my AGX struts. Since its just a daily driver and not a track car what about a set without all the caster/camber adjustability?
 
then youd want the non adjustable steel upper mounts from zzp with the urethane bushings.

making these non adjustable but with a monoball for coilovers would be heavy but it wouldnt help much. most coilover guys are pretty well into the suspension setup to not be able to get the alignment to specs other than the ****ty oem junk.

if your looking for some zzp plates and coilover hardware for your AGX struts....my buddy kevin is interested in the AGX's i have, to use with his intense/QA1 coilover hardware up front. we bought two sets of front coilovers wth the 350lb spring rate and changed the 442's suspension setup to u/l arms not long after.
id sell just the zzp plates/hats/springs/sleeves/bearings if your interested
 
Your ZZP stuff sounds interesting. Feel free to contact me with what you would like for these items. If you are able to, a picture or two would be nice to see also. If I were to purchase these from you, what other parts would I need? Helper springs are the only things I can think of at the moment. I probably should mention that my goal is to bring the front down 1.25"-1.5" from stock. I have camber bolts from when the plan was to use a set of SSC springs but this was prior to betting the bug over the adjustability factor of coilovers. Not sure if the camber bolts will bring things into spec so perhaps it would be better to purchase your fully adjustable plates anyway and future proof my suspension.
 


gimme another year or two

these are for test fitment, i still gotta order more cups and bearings. i want to see if i can avoid machine time to put the cup at an angle matching the oem LBJ but the monoball does look to have plenty of misalignment to work.
dont forget that these require the 4340 monoball pins, and while i have two sets of em id like to sell...they are with the car at wally's in NC.....so youll have to wait to get a good deal on those...iirc they were 100$ a pair... looks like the plates will work fine but i dont wanna give ya scrap.

i still have the strut rod bushings for ya but even if i sent you a pair of plates youd be stuck with a pretty desk ornament to look at while plowing yer secretary
 
Lmao Roger that james. The other comment you made about raising the lca attachment point does have my curiosity though.I know it'd take some welding and all but seemed doable
 
buford1972 said:
Your ZZP stuff sounds interesting. Feel free to contact me with what you would like for these items. If you are able to, a picture or two would be nice to see also. If I were to purchase these from you, what other parts would I need? Helper springs are the only things I can think of at the moment. I probably should mention that my goal is to bring the front down 1.25"-1.5" from stock. I have camber bolts from when the plan was to use a set of SSC springs but this was prior to betting the bug over the adjustability factor of coilovers. Not sure if the camber bolts will bring things into spec so perhaps it would be better to purchase your fully adjustable plates anyway and future proof my suspension.
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camber bolts are plenty. i designed the camber plates around using our coilovers with our 11" wide slicks. to do so the strut has to lay back farther
ill try to get back to ya asap, you doing this fast or is it a project in progress?

are your agx's already cut and ground for sleeves?

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Lmao Roger that james. The other comment you made about raising the lca attachment point does have my curiosity though.I know it'd take some welding and all but seemed doable
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oh yeah it do take some welding...but if i had the subframe out to do that the thing would get far more massaging
the problem is the rear...the bolt/hole is at the top at the 90* bend, cant go much higher without at least welding a brace to the lower section of the mounting tabs before id hack those 90* ears off and give myself another .5" in pivot centerline height.
id also remove the front lower plate and weld in a flat plate for lowering the front pivot/pickup point for even better anti dive/rise geometry
 


Marshal did you ever convert the rears to c/o too or just the fronts. Still getting quite a bit of bounce more then I like I thought 350lb 12" springs would do the trick but I think I need to go with a higher spring rate


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Yea I reused the pogo washer that I had on my original struts seemed fine and didn't seem worn out prior to me putting them on they compressed and expanded just fine and no noticeable leaks. I'll check them again this weekend if I have some time.


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eh, its still a rubber bushing....im using two old bench grinder arbor washers...nearly flat gentle curve that will fully compress below and i made some stainless rings to weld under the anti pogo washers lip so they compress the rubber tighter....even then ill probably finish my spherical rear plates just so the strut is working without the springiness of the rubber
 
Hmm I wonder if that could be the problem.

Oh and does it matter if the helper springs are on the top or bottom just out of curiosity.


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it should be on the bottom as the slider will use the strut body as a guide to keep from trying to kink sideways. ive seen some setups where they use rtv/adhesive to make sure the coil ends are overlaping to keep the springs from cocking the slider but that's typically with assist springs (higher rate) and not helper springs (low rate, just to keep **** from slackening)
 
cue park ave, in, 3, 2, ....

though he probably doesn't care....what kinda guy puts "the list goes on" instead of "baller custom fatman caster/camber plates so i can align my POS"

damn pricks

yeah i have an alum/stainless design, but the camber cant really go much further negative without trimming the center hole) than oem though it can go alot more positive.

mainly it'd be motion control so that there's no pogo effect other than what the strut towers flex. id love to make em out of alum to drop more weight out back but im just going with a smaller plate and less adjustment....though gaining a good bit of caster would probably help with adding some anti squat but thats what the fully jacked up coilovers are supposed to do...so i dont have to hang traction bars out the back of the TR and cut holes in the bumper cover.
 
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