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Spherical bearing upper mounts

The back of mine I was actually thinking of using a pair of front struts on (agx cause I'll never find a set off bilstein HD shocks again probably) and use in conjunction with a spherical bearing setup.
 


Turbocharged400sbc said:
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?

This is a project in progress. No, my AGX struts are not modified yet. They are assembled with the SSC springs and sitting in the corner of my garage.
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91parkave said:
The back of mine I was actually thinking of using a pair of front struts on (agx cause I'll never find a set off bilstein HD shocks again probably) and use in conjunction with a spherical bearing setup.
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I have two old style of front agx's with the adjusters rusted to full stiff rofl

fronts on the rear also mean you cant get the ass in the air with the shorter shaft length/travel. only way id move that route was if the trunk had an air bag system/heavy sound system and I needed to dampen the heavier mass of dat ass
 
im going to make at least one more change to the rear CC plates design and then i can make a batch

im now looking at making it adjust from below to keep from climbing into the trunk
 


yeah i already factored in you two loonies with the TR's set

like the fronts im only making 4 pairs but after screwing with my beater i decided that doing a rear alignment would suck ass i wanted to see about flipping **** to make the camber adjustment bolts accessible from below where you can get to em with extensions on an alignment lift. i just dont know how well i ike that from a long service standpoint without me having the alum plate hard anodized since it would be threaded and the stainless monoball plate would be sloted.

then again ill probably just slide em all the way negative for a better camber gain curve, and use the current camber bolts to clean it up to a hair neg when static so we're not too far positive when we hike the ass end up at the track.

i really want to lower the inboard rear lateral arm mounts 2" so we can lose some of the positive gain
 


91parkave said:
The back of mine I was actually thinking of using a pair of front struts on (agx cause I'll never find a set off bilstein HD shocks again probably) and use in conjunction with a spherical bearing setup.
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I've got a brand new set of Bilsteins although they're not HD's lol
 
GM PN 15245596 and 25853345 are the ones I have. Still in the boxes. They're not the HD's. These are the regular FE4 stock gxp struts from my understanding
 
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well adjustments from below would suck ass

im of the mind to keep it as it is or with a minor alteration for a high/low camber adjustment

ive been trying to do the math for the lateral arm swing between the low street ride height and jacked...
id love to make it so that the main camber adjustment is at the 3 10mm bolts and a smaller adjustment at the spherical bearing plate that would allow for a nice near zeroing of the camber while jacked up at the track. was working on some measuring for heim joints for aluminum lateral and trailing arms.... but alas ive got to finish the engine Tq link/mounts and the other schtuff for the 1/2 mile even.

we dont have a thread for roll center correction but ive made good headway on that one.

i brought back all the bump steer and LBJ/RC monoball pins from working on the 442. at the highest point the RC is moved downward 1/4" from the rough measurements. all the way down is a 1 inch difference over OEM. a huge improvement by any means.

honestly though all this work for a bolt in LBJ setup to use a monoball has me wanting to just hack up the zzp LCA's and weld in a couple double adjuster sleeves with a std heim joint. that way we could adjust track width and ditch the last vestiges of the typical "bucket of compromises" OEM suspension design.

i made a few more set of front sets so you guys can have matching pink front plates
 
< waiting lol

I'll be pulling the rears soon to swap to a lower spring rate and longer spring and hopefully get a better ride and getting rid of these annoying helper springs I keep hearing creak. If not I might call this Billsteins to old and grab a set of agx's
 
yeah im trying to get the first batch done for the 1/2mile event

if helpers are going bye bye, we may need em the rears are 275lb but im sure we're gonna have slack at full droop

you don't need any of the roll center correction stuffs right?
 
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