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Front mono-balls, Here is what I can find |
URY914 |
Aug 8 2003, 12:51 PM
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I built the lightest 914 in the history of mankind. Group: Members Posts: 121,091 Joined: 3-February 03 From: Jacksonville, FL Member No.: 222 Region Association: None |
I've been able to find four manufacturers/suppliers.
Give me some feedback about these. They are as follows: These are made in Canada and are $195 CDN (US $??). They're inserts which use the stock housing. I've sent several emails to them with no replys. Attached image(s) |
philinjax |
Aug 9 2003, 03:17 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 54 Joined: 26-March 03 From: Jacksonville, Florida Member No.: 476 |
I question the value of any of these, so called, upgrades. What could be the trade off? I wonder what the heck the value of these parts are for anything other organized racing. Even then, I doubt weather any performance advantage could be convincingly demonstrated.
Now, steel bearing replacements for the stock front and rear rubber thingies are a substantial improvement to handling for performance and on the street, they operate almost constantly over a wide angle range. But top bearings in the front struts, they hardly move more than a degree or two and they have such a long mechanical advantage that any resistance to movement caused by the rubber bearings has got to be practically undetectable. Strut top spherical bearings are almost as outrageous as the imfamous boxed trailing arms, far as I can tell, a lot of money for "trick parts", as they say, without value. I am now fitting my flame proof pants. philinjax (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) |
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