Ah blown strut and tweaked CC plate lol suggestions please!! Reply #15 – January 21, 2014, 05:40:32 PM Thats quite the bend. I was hoping the powder coat would of held up better i'm looking at a set I wonder how the chrome ones last Quote Selected
Ah blown strut and tweaked CC plate lol suggestions please!! Reply #16 – January 23, 2014, 12:03:21 PM Quote from: thewestie;427731Thats quite the bend. I was hoping the powder coat would of held up better i'm looking at a set I wonder how the chrome ones lastYeah I cant really vouch too much for them since they were on the car when I bought it. But the guys at MM responded with this.."I would say the only real salvageable piece might be the bearing plate/spherical bearing. The top plate that is bent can actually be hammered out back to a flat piece again, and be reused. We designed them that way so a racer could do a field repair. Have you determined if the bearing is bad or not? Due to the nature of that hit, I would replace the bottom plate and all of the hardware if everything else is in good shape."I might try to bend it out not sure yet..I gotta ask my buddy who does alot of fab work if he wants to take a wack at it. Once I fix the plate im gonna order some cheap struts maybe SN-95s this time and see how they hold out. Also thinking I should get actual SN-95 lowering springs instead of cut ones. Quote Selected
Ah blown strut and tweaked CC plate lol suggestions please!! Reply #17 – January 23, 2014, 01:33:16 PM I was actually thinking about you might be able to hammer it out I just did it to set of aluminum plates ...... But we're not that bad Quote Selected
Ah blown strut and tweaked CC plate lol suggestions please!! Reply #18 – January 24, 2014, 01:33:41 PM install them upside down and go find the same pot hole . Quote Selected
Ah blown strut and tweaked CC plate lol suggestions please!! Reply #19 – January 24, 2014, 03:30:58 PM Lmao Quote Selected
Ah blown strut and tweaked CC plate lol suggestions please!! Reply #20 – January 24, 2014, 03:53:26 PM Quote from: Haystack;427841install them upside down and go find the same pot hole .I loled at that one!! Quote Selected
Ah blown strut and tweaked CC plate lol suggestions please!! Reply #21 – March 10, 2014, 12:37:27 AM As it turns out I didn't install the required bump stops that normally comes with thier kits as they weren't on there from the previous owner. I'm thinking I should just order an entire set after I figure out what struts run. Between the rubber bump stops and the washers I know it's right. Quote Selected
Ah blown strut and tweaked CC plate lol suggestions please!! Reply #22 – March 10, 2014, 07:20:43 AM Ever think about a bump stop on the lower A FRAME??????????????????? Something to think about. remember when the car bottoms out it does so on the CC Plates. This in my view is NG when a car is lowered. And in my view the CC plate can not take that kind of pounding. So one has to think about all the variables when modifying a suspension system. And i have found some really slick ways to build front and rear suspensions that work really well. So just for kicks think about a lower A frame rebound bumpers. Also when a car is lowered you need a spring with loads of RATE. Reason being it will have a tendency of bottoming on those plates and as you found out bent them. OR design a set of plates below the cc units to exorb the shock from the rebound pucks that are stock. I have fixed many a set of upper spring towers that were pounded out and ripped. Those towers are not that strong. good luck.Bottom rebound insulators work the best and i use CHEVELLE ones from GM. What i do is measure the travel and fab the bushings to bottom out way before the CC plates come in contact with the stock or modified strut ones, Once again if those struts bottom out on those CC Plated they will bend. We do a lot of these for the mustang guys.Note you are lucky the plates bent. Because the way it is bottoming out next thing will be ripping the tower mounts. Like i said i have repaired numerous strut towers on these cars.Bellow is a modified upper strut mount on the MIDNIGHTER. I fabbed a 1/8 inch plate under the strut tower connected to the K FRAME inner rail then plated the front and rear sides of the inner wheel well. This makes a real good place to transfer the shock when bottoming out. other than a lower A frame rebound setup this takes a lot of fabbing. remember lowering a car has it"s consequences if not dun properly!! just saying Quote Selected
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