on the contrary, those seats are the tits

This is a very special car, those seats are brilliant.

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car is looking good buddy, you coming to FF?

I JUST TYPED A POST AND LOST IT ALL SO THIS IS IT IN SHORT:!!!

A little education for everyone

Car all over place when accelerating/braking.... had recently replaced wishbones and top mounts/bearings, (two months ago)

My tyres was unevenly worn so i thought that was the main cause. Got some tyres, was better but not really.


So i got some decent stuff, as only stuff i could put it down to was this: Lemforder wishbones and genuine top mounts/bearings.





Just for your information, lemforder is brand of zf, they supply to many car manufacturers including ford, bmw, vag, merc etc. There parts are very good.

The part number on the wishbone bush is a ford one, made by boge, boge is also a brand of ZF

The problem with the cheap wishbones seems to be that the bushes unglue from the wishbone, creating movement.

Top mounts.





As you can see the cheapo ones are worn quite a bit, making lots of movement.

And they sit differently on the top spring cup, which cant be helping things:





Bearings.



Made in germany. I know they cant win the war, but theyre pretty dam good at building cars/parts.

The cheapo ones where rough as .......



You cant really see it but the cheap ones dont seem to seal up the bearing properly.


As you can imagine it made a hell of a difference. Tracking was a bit out so got that sorted and she drives lovely.

Moral of the story, buy decent parts, genuine where possible. Cheap parts = dont last long.



This post was more in detail, but me being a numpty managed to close the page.....

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I agree with buying decent parts, especially on a modified car where the stress levels are much more than manufacture standards

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lmao cookie i know what you mean! i was doing my thread for fiestaturbo. took me best part of an hour getting the pics in/typing etc and boom, it just closed on me, didnt save. was so angry!

back on topic: there new lower arms? what happend to your adjustable ones? probably missed that somewhere like but just curious!

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Adjustable ones, well there still lying around somewhere, the bushes are dead.

Non adjustable at the mo, but to be fair its not low enough too need them, the camber is ok. I think it handles better too.

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so there not poly'd or anything?

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dam this is a late reply.

No there not poly'd just standard. Now you see the thing is, poly bushes are good, but for track use.

Polybushes limit the amount of movement, so give good responsiveness in suspension/steering, at the cost of a bit of comfort. On a track = nice and smooth, which is nice.

However, on a road car, especially with the roads the state they are in around here, you basically end up wearing a hole inside the polybush. Thus movement and knocking noises.

Therefore in my oppinion, you are better of with a good, i must stress, good, quality set of wishbones.


On a good note, just won a set of gsxr600 throttle bodys for 32 english pounds

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/200659038851? ... 1439.l2649

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bargain indeed!

ha good find


you make poly' sound far worse than they are lol

even on the road they should outlast rubbers, but i agree, for wishbones, top mounts and rear beam mounts they are quite harsh on already stiff Si suspension

Travelling home on the M4 sat morning after picking up a lsd box, someone cut out in front of me and i braked heavily, locked up and ended up in the central reservation.




Luckily i managed to not hit anyone else, im ok. But pissed off, no one stopped, i had to pay 150 quid recovery to get me of the motorway too.

Repairable, dont think its bent chassis but untill the front wings off i just dont know.

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I have a brand new gen ford wing that side mate, got mirrors is that the bumper I sold you the other week? I scrapped the si last week with ur old bonnet on it should have kept it now

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Rip Ben Elvin (jam)

glad ur ok tho dude cant believe no one stopped

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Rip Ben Elvin (jam)

i still got the bumper i got from you, will have the wing tho.

needs to find a genuine rear quarter

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Ah fuck!

Tbh mate once you have a look you can pretty much guarantee there will be structual damage

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Fuckin hell, is it just panel damage, hope she can be saved.

crap, thats very unlucky, dont you love it when people all come together?

id have fucking stopped

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