A question about A-framing

[Billy_smith]

well after reading this months article on A-framing your OSF i decided i'd have a go. So got it up on the ramp today and the first thing i notice is how is this going to work without fowling my exhaust?

My car is a mk2 escort estate and as u all no they have a mk1 escort rear suspension setup, so my shocks are at 45 degrees. so exhaust and shocks are a bit tight. i looked back at the article and i know goldmember is mk2 and has an uprite setup but i noticed that they hav'nt actually put a picture in there showing the exhaust on the car!

So anyone got any ideas? know wot they done? or got a setup themselves?? Pics, information, ideas anything welcome cheers

[Fiesta Steve]

I also saw in the pic that it was rose jointed. Now my experience of being in cars with rose jointed suspension is that its like driving a car with no tyres !! Horrific shocks travel through the car that you could do without on a road car. Would a rose jointed A-frame do the same ??

 

Would an a-frame be better than tramp bars and a panhard rod on a road car ??

[Billy_smith]

[Jeff HPE Motorsport]

 

Hello billy boy.

What is it you are trying to achieve mate?

 

Jeff Harris..

[Posse]

Don't do it there aload of shite

[Billy_smith]

 

Hello billy boy.

What is it you are trying to achieve mate?

 

Jeff Harris..

 

Wos looking at A-framing the estate but going by what posse said i think not lol!!!!!!!!!!

[russ105e]

Don't do it there aload of shite

 

Why's that ?

[Andrade]

*watches this one with interest*

[Ken B]

I also saw in the pic that it was rose jointed. Now my experience of being in cars with rose jointed suspension is that its like driving a car with no tyres !! Horrific shocks travel through the car that you could do without on a road car. Would a rose jointed A-frame do the same ??

 

Would an a-frame be better than tramp bars and a panhard rod on a road car ??

 

 

The bars are only rose jointed at one end but have

poly bushes at the diff end so this damps a lot of the vibration.

 

Remember the early MkI Lotus Cortinas had A Frames and I think Colin Chapman knew what he was doing.

[Fiesta Steve]

I also saw in the pic that it was rose jointed. Now my experience of being in cars with rose jointed suspension is that its like driving a car with no tyres !! Horrific shocks travel through the car that you could do without on a road car. Would a rose jointed A-frame do the same ??

 

Would an a-frame be better than tramp bars and a panhard rod on a road car ??

 

 

The bars are only rose jointed at one end but have

poly bushes at the diff end so this damps a lot of the vibration.

 

 

Thanks.