Fabricated C6 Uprights...

[Sandbagger]

What Bearings are being used ? I dont hear about the C5-6 guys complaining about bearing life .
But the C4 guys have few options for a decent wheel bearing . I trashed a set of Autozone front bearings in ten laps at Autobahn last year on Kumho 710s .
Not to threadjack your post ...
Ive been looking for a fix which led me to this topic .
With all the folks using C4 components for Hot Rods ,kit cars and tracked C4s ,there may be a good market for a spindle with a bearing that can take the abuse .
Wish I had the ability ....


Anymore nascar pics btw ?

[Ketzer]

Originally Posted by Jay@GMR

Travis, At this time we have no plans to produce a fabricated AFX version, but its not to say it will not be on the list of "things to do". We are aware of the need as we have had others request the same do to spindle flex and deflection of the upright section itself.

You may want to look into CPP's Upright offerings. They have a Tall A,F,X 2" drop upright that may work with the TruTurn? It would most certainly solve the deflection issue at a very reasonable price.

Hope this helps.

Thanks, Jay

Just trying to learn a little tech here... What makes the "AFX" so different than these uprights?

Anyone have a spare copy of Uprights for Dummies?...


Jeff-

[dontlifttoshift]

Jeff, the GMR upright is a direct replacement for a C6 upright on a stock corvette or on the multitiude of aftermarket subframes and chassis that use the factory C6 upright. DSE, RS, or Morrison come to mind.

The AFX spindle is designed to fit a an A,F,orX body directly and then allows you to use C5 or 6 brakes on those cars.

[Ketzer]

Originally Posted by dontlifttoshift

Jeff, the GMR upright is a direct replacement for a C6 upright on a stock corvette or on the multitiude of aftermarket subframes and chassis that use the factory C6 upright. DSE, RS, or Morrison come to mind.

The AFX spindle is designed to fit a an A,F,orX body directly and then allows you to use C5 or 6 brakes on those cars.

Thanks Donny! Now I can talk smack at the water cooler tomorrow like a boss!


Jeff-

[wiedemab]

Originally Posted by The GMR

To be completely apples to apples I believe you would need to add steering arm to the fabricated one right?

[dontlifttoshift]

Depends on how you look at it. For our purposes we should cut stock steering arm off the stock upright.

[JasonElvisHeard]

Originally Posted by wiedemab

To be completely apples to apples I believe you would need to add steering arm to the fabricated one right?

yeah but I was not going to cut off the steering arm of the stock upright, I wanted to keep her stock for research reasons.

If you want to be fair, then reduce the stock unit by a quarter pound, more then reasonable for the steering arm difference. The reason for the weight comparison was to show that the fabricated unit are not much heavier, or possibly more then double the weight like some would assume.

I think even though its not technically exactly the same the picture still gets the job done with what I was concerned about.

Jason

[JasonElvisHeard]

The pro-touring industries highest performing brake package affixed to a GMR fabricated upright....

[Sieg]

Nice!

Not to take anything away from The Brake Mans stellar and affordable products.........

Your uprights would look mighty fine sporting these too.

[JasonElvisHeard]

Originally Posted by Sieg

Nice!

Not to take anything away from The Brake Mans stellar and affordable products.........

Your uprights would look mighty fine sporting these too.

just finished all the design for those about 2 months back, the new front hubs for them along with rear rotor adapters are already at machine....

one step ahead of you!

Jason