Alright, where to start. Plenty of work was done even fixing the bucket of **** issues that come with owning a 20 year old Ford. Lets get to the latter portion first, the "fun" stuff.
Upon jacking the car up by its designated lift point on the engine crossmember i knew something was wrong with where it bolts to the lower Radiator core support in the front. Once I had the pressure released from the bolt it just hung there loose, not to mention the other one had been rusted in and the PO snapped it. So the surgery began, had to cut it open to beat off the nut-serts that were spot welded, here is the finished product after deciding to just hard bolt it to the core support.
Now onto the better fun stuff, getting this bitch stiff finally.
1. Pierce Motorsports 4 Point front tie brace.
2. Pierce Motorsports Tubular Lower Control Arms (Heim/Spherical)
3. FE3-323 Spherical Bushings
4. Powdercoating by Kevin
Out with the old stamped steel unit, and in with the new!
Close up of the Spherical not mounted to car to give you a better idea.
And here is everything bolted up, Rear LCA pickup point has been converted to full solid with a Spherical unit, and the Front of the control arm was set up to use a heim Joint.
Took it in for the alignment, it was ruined because the control arms added a considerable amount of track width to the car. Something like 2 degrees on both side, damned thing was hunting for every lane on my way down to get it aligned. Swapped the Race wheels on for the time being, I should be getting some decent pictures with everything on, even though theres not much to show, it is after all still an Escort. lol
Upon jacking the car up by its designated lift point on the engine crossmember i knew something was wrong with where it bolts to the lower Radiator core support in the front. Once I had the pressure released from the bolt it just hung there loose, not to mention the other one had been rusted in and the PO snapped it. So the surgery began, had to cut it open to beat off the nut-serts that were spot welded, here is the finished product after deciding to just hard bolt it to the core support.
Now onto the better fun stuff, getting this bitch stiff finally.
1. Pierce Motorsports 4 Point front tie brace.
2. Pierce Motorsports Tubular Lower Control Arms (Heim/Spherical)
3. FE3-323 Spherical Bushings
4. Powdercoating by Kevin
Out with the old stamped steel unit, and in with the new!
Close up of the Spherical not mounted to car to give you a better idea.
And here is everything bolted up, Rear LCA pickup point has been converted to full solid with a Spherical unit, and the Front of the control arm was set up to use a heim Joint.
Took it in for the alignment, it was ruined because the control arms added a considerable amount of track width to the car. Something like 2 degrees on both side, damned thing was hunting for every lane on my way down to get it aligned. Swapped the Race wheels on for the time being, I should be getting some decent pictures with everything on, even though theres not much to show, it is after all still an Escort. lol
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