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Old August 4th 2004, 16:24
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I'd reallu lie to ditch the front shock towere(balljoint) as thay foull on my rims without spacers.
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Old August 5th 2004, 00:36
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In my case I will be beefing up the shock towers. All of them.

On the Manx with the Red9 front kit we will be connecting the shock towers with chromemoly tubing. From front to back the tubing will come just under the side sill and contain Nascar type side bars under the sidepods. The main side tube will continue on to the shock tower and also connect side to side. We do alot of tubing fabrication at work so this helps.

On the Convert I will be using an Aircooled.net CSP type rear braces combined with PowerTuning transmounts to tie everything together. We will see how stiff that is.

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Old August 5th 2004, 20:24
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for the front
I wonder if I could use a hemispherical joint on the bottom of a coilover and relocate the top mount in a couple inches, worth a try.
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Old August 6th 2004, 07:31
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I think you still have to tie the front of the spring plate to something if you ditch the torsion bar... seems like I saw somewhere a kit that put a bearing in a retaining plate kinda thingy... ahhgg, I can't remember where I saw it. Maybe it will come to me later.
Was thius what you were thinking of?
http://www.gwd-weiser.de/index2.htm
Go to news-angebote and scroll al the way down to 'performance drehstabe'

It would eliminate the use of a 930 or uniball set-up...(?)

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Old August 6th 2004, 19:26
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Exactly!
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