[Tigers] Front suspension

[Theo Smit]

Hi Mike, 

In 2001 or so, I figured out that a crash in the way-past had twisted both upper shock towers (in the same direction) and the previous owner(s) had not corrected it. 
I cut off the upper towers and put in coilover mounts, along with new upper control arm mounts. As part of that operation I lowered the inboard upper control arm mounts an inch. I'm also using the Minx spindles, and that keeps the control arm angles in a reasonable range. 

I reversed the lower fulcrum pins, which shifts the lower control arm forward about a quarter inch, and increases the caster. As part of that, I added bolt-on braces off the rear face of the crossmember so that the rear end of the fulcrum pins are mounted in double shear. 
I'm currently also running a quicker Flaming River rack, and the steering effort (with 205/45-16's) is pretty reasonable. 

I've been pondering re-doing all of this, because what remains of the original crossmember is pretty beat up and had numerous stress cracks that I welded up when I last had it out of the car. 
A few years ago I got a hold of an Alpine crossmember so that I could re-start with something that hopefully had led an easier life. To address the issue of insufficient balljoint spacing and spindle/hub rigidity, I'd start with Wilwood or somebody else's Mustang hubs and spindles. 
But as with many things, I have not taken this past the ideas stage. Critiques and ideas are welcome. 

To the question of "why don't you just buy Dale's"... part of my enjoyment of my Tiger is the making of stuff. Sometimes that means the car sits longer than I'd like but that's life. 

Cheers, 
Theo 


From: "tigers" <tigers at autox.team.net> 
To: "Gary" <garywinblad at comcast.net>, "Lance Beauchamp" <blance598 at gmail.com>, "tigers" <tigers at autox.team.net> 
Sent: Friday, October 1, 2021 10:37:07 AM 
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Front suspension 

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Wonder if anyone has done it? 

Mike 

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