New "strut rod bearings" offered for our cars!

I've had these on the car for several months now but wasn't supposed to tell anyone since they were still in the R&D phase. Now they are available to the public and I just wanted to let everyone know about them. They replace the stock strut rod bushing with a spherical aircraft bearing. These will work best for drag racers or road racers but do have some benefits for the everyday driver. Let me know if you are interested and I will get you the information you need to get a set. I think asking price will be around $250 - $350 for the set. Not cheap but high performance never has been!!

It's hard to see in the pics but they say "CALVERT RACING" on them as they were designed by the same people that make Cal Trac bars.

 

Stephen,
I'm not sure that I understand the benefits.
Is there still circulatory movement of the rod
without any front to back movement? It seems
like there would be some leverage type movement,
I guess it allows for that.


Seth

 

This allows for free movement of the front suspension with NO resistance. With the rubber bushings there is ALOT of resistance to allow the suspension to do what it's supposed to do. The shock/spring is supposed to dictate the movement of the suspension, not the bushings. This is just one part of the whole puzzle and is one of the reasons my car transfers weight so good. The spherical bearing is "sandwiched" between the aluminum plates, the bearing allows for free up and down movement with ZERO front to rear deflection under hard braking or when the front tires touch back down, exactly what you want for a road race car or drag car.

 

No more rubber bushings! Remember, you probably won't see much benefit from these on a daily driver or a show car.

Trust me, Calvert Racing or I wouldn't put the time and effort into them if they didn't have some benefits. I sure as heck wouldn't have gone without one of my strut rods for 6 months if I didn't think it wouldn't be worth it for my car. I assisted on most of the R&D work for our cars! They were on the car at the Roundup but nobody noticed!!

As I stated, these are not for everyone but there are some people out there that will appreciate there benefits. I'm one of them!

PS- Lots of thanks to Moneymaker Racing for allowing me to work with them and Calvert Racing on getting these out to the public!!

 

I get it now.
Perhaps that is why my front end seems so much stiffer now with the
polygraphite bushings up front. It's really tight, although not as tight
as yours would be.

Seth

 

But what does it do under VERY hard braking? The bushing, no matter what material it is made out of "gives". This "give" is very undesireable in a road race car. But rubber, polyurethane, polygraphite and the like are just fine for a daily driver. These are for those racers that are looking for every last advantage. The same principles apply for the upper and lower control arm bushings.

 

those look like the same offering as total control products.

 

As far as I know TCP doesn't offer ones that will work with our cars. The early Mustang style will not work.

 

Auto krafters offers them for $245. They are by RSS

 

Those look well made It seems as tho someone else has a set up like that...
Ivy Collins maybe?

 

RRS doesn't offer them for Mavericks yet. These are application specific.

 

Ivy does have something similar to this but I don't think his uses the stock strut rod. Some classes require the use of a stock "unmodified" strut rod.

 

thanks for the info.

Let us know if your 60 foot times get better.

 

Just putting these on your car WILL NOT have a major effect on 60' times. Like I said in a previous post, this is just a small piece to the big puzzle. The combination of ALL the "trick" things i've done to the suspension is what has dropped my 60' time.

 

Oh , I did`nt realize that the Calvert racing peices retained the stock strut rods. Do you have to drill holes for the bolts I see to go thru the frame ,, or do they just "Sandwich" the frame between two halves useing the two large stock bushing holes?(it looks that way)