The first thing I do on escorts and capris is to dump the ARB and factory TCA's and fit compression struts and adjustable TCA's ,The factory set up is relying on a flexible bar mounted on flimsy little rubbers or poly bushes to maintain castor which it can't by virtue of its flexibility,size and positioning, admittedly my car ( A Capri)is fully rose jointed but the difference between compression struts and the ARB set up is massively better in terms of retaining precise geometry under deflection and adds anti dive qualities,the feel and feed back through the wheel is much better also. It stops the wheel base from shortening or the unintentional lane changing when you are braking hard at speed too😁The available range of wheel adjustment (I'm using fixed position spherical top mounts) is more than you would reasonably ever require.I run 250-190 lb springs with a lightweight (by comparison to the pinto and type 9)ally V8 and tremec box,it's firm to say the least and noisy to be fair because of the joints,but The feedback and precision!!. You are then faced with the simple fact that no matter how you cut it the arse end is no longer up to the job!
Really nice design Matt. For V3.0 I'd add one thing. Weld a cut down socket or adapter to the rotating part so all you have to do to rotate it is loosen the bolts and turn it with a ratchet/extension. Hope that makes sense.
A good addition would be to add a Nut or bolt head to the top plate in the spare space so when you need to turn the plate for caster adjustment you can just put a socket and rachet on it otherwise it could be hard to turn👍🏼
Fantastic watching you engineer out a problem - that is first class work indeed. You have certainly moved on a great amount Matt, it’s a pleasure to see how you work. Makes me chuckle seeing the level holding the bonnet open!! 😂👍
Last year I went my way to make some camber plates for a car they don't have tuning parts. Unfortunately I gave up when I couldn't find the weld on spherical bearing anywhere except US. It also costed as much as some chinese camber plates where it was easier to just steal the inside and make my own surrounding.
Nice work! ever tried using a countersink to drill out the plasma cut holes? its like a reamer with 3 cutting edges of contact.. pretty sure they use better quality cutting material than standard drillbits to... undersize the hole in the dxf by 1 mm acording to your countersink.. reaming and drilling to size for your threadcutting.. allways worked for me starting from Metric 8 mm
As usual great work Matt! If you made the outer slots different lengths you would be able to move a bolt past a land between the slots one at a time so you need not remove all bolts at the same time and have to fumble underneath to hold the plate up to put the bolts back in. Also what finish did you use?
Beautiful design and execution. One question though, wouldn't three more holes on that washer with nuts allow you infinite adjustment and also allow to change the location without removing all bolts? Enjoyed the build and your plasma cutter is like a mechanical ballet compared to working with a torch. Enjoyed very much, cheers!
Sad fact. In the time it took for me to watch this video, two Chinese companies set up production to copy this idea and a third made 3000 sets out of 2mm aluminium for sale on Wish. Nice work as usual Matt.
Bloody fools. There is soon to be a container from the first factory standing on good real estate waiting for orders to come flooding in. Sad fact: There is not that much interest in the items produced and it is reducing year by year. The one pair that did sell cracked around the slots since the material is aluminium and not steel. A refund is currently being sought and a patent infringement case is pending from a USA company that specialises in Ford Escort rally car components, belonging to a wealthy industrialist from Texas.
Hi Matt. I'm about to weld my bearing cups into 6 mm plate. Did you have any distortion or difficulty installing the bearing? My car is an ep82 starlet rally car. It'll have a big increase in caster when I'm finished.
Matt is that something that you would be interested in doing as a piece to sell for a different car? I’m looking for something like that for my civic Type R track toy but no one seems to make camber and caster ones (and the caster is pretty shocking standard).
@@Urchfab I’ve been struggling with different CAD packages. I tried E machine this week and it’s great! I managed to achieve a lot very quickly. I bought a subscription so I can export dxf and very happy with the results. Cheers for the info. It’s helped me a lot! 👍
Geez, lot of work, to be honest. I would have modified/fabricated lower control arms with L/R threads and hung the sway bar ( which wants to be way bigger than STD ) off new brackets if necessary. The other advantage of doing this is it keeps any additional weight down low. Just my opinion.
Nice! Especially that last version. But does it have to be that heavy of material? 3/4 of the thickness and aluminium would work as the same, and save some weight in the process. The slider could still be steel, or even some 3D-printed polymer, or carbon fiber. But the design is good.
This is exactly why we subscribe to this brilliant channel
Matt you’re a bloody genius what a great design and that mig welding was brilliant great 👍👨🏻🏭
Thanks 👍
This is the kind of engineering brilliance I'm come to expect from you Matty. Great work Mate. Billy J.... OZ-Land
The first thing I do on escorts and capris is to dump the ARB and factory TCA's and fit compression struts and adjustable TCA's ,The factory set up is relying on a flexible bar mounted on flimsy little rubbers or poly bushes to maintain castor which it can't by virtue of its flexibility,size and positioning, admittedly my car ( A Capri)is fully rose jointed but the difference between compression struts and the ARB set up is massively better in terms of retaining precise geometry under deflection and adds anti dive qualities,the feel and feed back through the wheel is much better also. It stops the wheel base from shortening or the unintentional lane changing when you are braking hard at speed too😁The available range of wheel adjustment (I'm using fixed position spherical top mounts) is more than you would reasonably ever require.I run 250-190 lb springs with a lightweight (by comparison to the pinto and type 9)ally V8 and tremec box,it's firm to say the least and noisy to be fair because of the joints,but The feedback and precision!!. You are then faced with the simple fact that no matter how you cut it the arse end is no longer up to the job!
Really nice design Matt. For V3.0 I'd add one thing. Weld a cut down socket or adapter to the rotating part so all you have to do to rotate it is loosen the bolts and turn it with a ratchet/extension. Hope that makes sense.
I'm on that mate.
Wow mate. That’s awesome !! Your r and d is amazing. Soooo much thought goes into your creations. Boggles the mind to us regular peeps
Cheers
The man's a freek. A mechanical freek of nature.
Bloody good effort Matty.
Great video as always..Love your welding turntable.
Great work glad you decided to stick with you tube
Nice to see how you make adjustments to the design if you notice that you are running out of space somewhere. Good job Matt.
Brilliant engineering, skillfully excecuted!
Patent it Matt. Brilliant.
Nice job! Having international shipping on the raffle is a big bonus. I'm going to buy a ticket. I would love to own a plasma table.
Good luck mate.
A good addition would be to add a Nut or bolt head to the top plate in the spare space so when you need to turn the plate for caster adjustment you can just put a socket and rachet on it otherwise it could be hard to turn👍🏼
You are correct, It is hard to turn!
Genus design Urch!
Absolute genius.Well done Matt. 👍
Now that's some clever design work. Nice job!
Don’t stop doing what your doing mate 👍
Mr. Stanley would not be pleased were he to find out that you use his 1 metre level as a hood prop. 😉
your welding is perfect mate 👏👏👏👍
Loving the channel from Northern Ireland 🇬🇧🇬🇧
Clever stuff. Thanks for sharing 👍
Nice design Matt, reckon that could be used for more than just Escorts.
Fantastic watching you engineer out a problem - that is first class work indeed. You have certainly moved on a great amount Matt, it’s a pleasure to see how you work. Makes me chuckle seeing the level holding the bonnet open!! 😂👍
Thanks Trevor
Last year I went my way to make some camber plates for a car they don't have tuning parts. Unfortunately I gave up when I couldn't find the weld on spherical bearing anywhere except US. It also costed as much as some chinese camber plates where it was easier to just steal the inside and make my own surrounding.
Try Mcgill motorsport.
@@Urchfab Ah now those prices are affordable, the ones I looked from US motorsport sites were like 90usd instead of 9gbp lol
@Urchfab exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.
Matt your pretty handy with that plasma table, really well thought out design for top mount great job.
Cheers
Sweet!
Phew! time for a cup'o'tea and put ya feet up. Hope it works for the wheel alignment guys.
Nice work! ever tried using a countersink to drill out the plasma cut holes? its like a reamer with 3 cutting edges of contact.. pretty sure they use better quality cutting material than standard drillbits to... undersize the hole in the dxf by 1 mm acording to your countersink.. reaming and drilling to size for your threadcutting.. allways worked for me starting from Metric 8 mm
Just a thought to help with adjustment would a square hole to fit a power bar help in the fine set up process. Keep up the good work.
Nice work over here from Texas
Thanks 👍
That's bloody beaut!
Thanks for the upload 👍
Nice video, awesome job !
Hi, brilliant workmanship on the top mounts, love them 👍. Great explanations as you go along. Top Man.👌👌 👍
Thanks 👍
Great engineering and fab. Mahalo for sharing!🙂🐒
Cheers
Thats sum tight stuff
Matt, that's an impressive amount of engineering to avoid an anti-dive kit and double threaded TCA adjusters! 🤔🤔🤯👌
Cool vid Matt, I entered the raffle mate 👍
Good luck mate.
10:28 you will ruin your reading glasses 😂
Great design. Would some engraved lines on the plate help with marking positions for different adjustments and ensuring both sides are equal?
Top content again 😎❤️❤️
Loving the content asalways 👌👌👌
Nice job son
Still can’t make a proper cup of tea though!
Clever stuff 😎
If you do a run of these top mounts I’d be after a set 👍🏼
As usual great work Matt! If you made the outer slots different lengths you would be able to move a bolt past a land between the slots one at a time so you need not remove all bolts at the same time and have to fumble underneath to hold the plate up to put the bolts back in. Also what finish did you use?
Great idea, just some silver aerosol.
Beautiful design and execution. One question though, wouldn't three more holes on that washer with nuts allow you infinite adjustment and also allow to change the location without removing all bolts? Enjoyed the build and your plasma cutter is like a mechanical ballet compared to working with a torch. Enjoyed very much, cheers!
Thanks, I cant see how that would work unless you had 6 holes on the car also?
if you put camber plates on a standard for escort mk2 strut does it rise the car body or lower
Sad fact. In the time it took for me to watch this video, two Chinese companies set up production to copy this idea and a third made 3000 sets out of 2mm aluminium for sale on Wish. Nice work as usual Matt.
Bloody fools. There is soon to be a container from the first factory standing on good real estate waiting for orders to come flooding in. Sad fact: There is not that much interest in the items produced and it is reducing year by year. The one pair that did sell cracked around the slots since the material is aluminium and not steel. A refund is currently being sought and a patent infringement case is pending from a USA company that specialises in Ford Escort rally car components, belonging to a wealthy industrialist from Texas.
Hopefully he's getting a patent on the design
@@adeh503 Really not worth the cost and aggravation. beside that is not an invention .
Hi Matt. I'm about to weld my bearing cups into 6 mm plate. Did you have any distortion or difficulty installing the bearing? My car is an ep82 starlet rally car. It'll have a big increase in caster when I'm finished.
great design matt, i can make them without a plasma table ;)
What thickness did you use for the plates? amazing job! :D
Like from Russia 🇷🇺 👍👍👍
Did you buy the rose joint casing or did turn it on the lathe?
Matt is that something that you would be interested in doing as a piece to sell for a different car? I’m looking for something like that for my civic Type R track toy but no one seems to make camber and caster ones (and the caster is pretty shocking standard).
Uber tech. Love it
Couldn't find any for sale on your website?
Nice work! Out of interest, what CAD software do you use to draw your designs on?
E machine shop. Cheers
@@Urchfab I’ve been struggling with different CAD packages. I tried E machine this week and it’s great! I managed to achieve a lot very quickly. I bought a subscription so I can export dxf and very happy with the results. Cheers for the info. It’s helped me a lot! 👍
What is the range of adjustment in camber and caster?
Dunno yet.
matt cant get the link to work for the raffle .can get to your web page but the link for the raffle doesnt open
I've just checked it and seems to be working now, Try again and let me know. Cheers
cool bracket Mat. Did you dream this up and design this yourself?....
Sure did.
Geez, lot of work, to be honest. I would have modified/fabricated lower control arms with L/R threads and hung the sway bar ( which wants to be way bigger than STD ) off new brackets if necessary. The other advantage of doing this is it keeps any additional weight down low. Just my opinion.
Nice! Especially that last version. But does it have to be that heavy of material? 3/4 of the thickness and aluminium would work as the same, and save some weight in the process. The slider could still be steel, or even some 3D-printed polymer, or carbon fiber. But the design is good.
Yawz kleva yaw iz..
Dunno what this means but cheers.
(You're clever you is)
@@Urchfab Black Country ☺
Tried to buy 5 tickets and it said website was down...
Ok thanks for letting me know, I will contact them tomorrow and get it sorted. Cheers