#Team z fox body rear suspension plus#
#Team z fox body rear suspension free#

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#Team z fox body rear suspension plus#

I'm thinking this might be why its claimed that going to all steel bushings on the rear control arms can make the handling on fast turns scary, making the rear ARB much more effective will definitely make the car prone to oversteer.īut this is a big plus on a drag car, you want your rear ARB to be very stiff.UPR Products was started in 1989 by long time Ford drag racer Mark Mainiero and his son Joe. So if there is slop in the bushings the anti-roll bar doesn't work as well. This is because they transfer their force trying to keep the rear level though the control arms and its bushings. It turns out slop in the control arm bushings causes the stock style anti-roll bars to not be as effective as they could be. There is another advantage in going to all spherical bearings that I didn't realize until recently, after reading through the Maximum Motorsports installation instructions for their drag style anti-roll bar.

#Team z fox body rear suspension free#

Having the rear be bind free allows you so use shock and instant center tuning much more effectively as the shocks, springs and instant center location now fully control the motion of the rear. With both the stock UCA's and some UCA's I had with poly on both ends the rear was way stiffer on this test, it was much harder to move up and down and it didn't feel as free or smooth as the ladder bar car. Its much easier to push and pull the car up and down and once you let it go the oscillation keep going for around 10 seconds. Replacing the stock UCA's with UCA's with metal spherical bearings on both ends makes a huge difference (links in a previous post), without the shocks connected the rear feels totally free and smooth, just like the ladder bar car did. I did this test about a week ago on a hard hooking drag oriented car that had ladder bars and it was amazing how smooth and controlled the motion was.ĭoing the test on my GT doesn't feel as smooth as that car did so I'm going to work on it to try to get it feeling smoother.Ĭlick to expand.As I mentioned in the post above, using the test above I'm trying to get my GT to feel as free and smooth as the hard hooking ladder bar drag car I used to have. This test can also show you how well your anti-roll bar is working, push up on the far right end of the bumper and see how much tilt you get on the bumper, a good ARB will keep the bumper very flat during this test. I take a close look at each control arm end during this process for any sign that its too tight or too loose. Your hands and eyes should feel and see really smooth movement, ie just as hard to push up as pull down, the movement both up and down is very smooth and each control arm end should move smoothly with no funny motion or noises. Now get under the rear bumper and push the car up and then pull it down as hard as you can, getting it to bounce up and down as much as you can. Then disconnect the bottom shock bolt on both rear shocks so the shocks aren't active any more. If you have access to a 4 post jack that supports the car on its wheels, put it on one of those, or on flat ground if that's all you have. Here's a good test for binding or slop I recently discovered.