Design drawings...?

[Herak]

Of course. Could end up looking like a DUB club enthusiast, driving along on the valve stems, with the wheels at such an angle they're perpendicular to each other...

Which is why I really, really want to find some design drawings and measurements I can check before committing to it.

 

[rooster2100]

Of course. Could end up looking like a DUB club enthusiast, driving along on the valves stem, with the wheels at such an angle they're perpendicular to each other...

Which is why I really, really want to find some design drawings and measurements I can check before committing to it.

you know you can get the exact same ride quality that gives you by running on just the rim right? no tires

 

[Herak]

I don't think it would Mate. If the Front arm is correct

Is the point. We don't currently know if it is correct. The MK3 has a much thinner mounting space for the front arms, so using the standard Cougar front arm is a no-go.

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Or Vauxhall/GM/French cars.

 

[rooster2100]

Is the point. We don't currently know if it is correct. The MK3 has a much thinner mounting space for the front arms, so using the standard Cougar front arm is a no-go.

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Or Vauxhall/GM/French cars.

Yeah I saw that. those arms wouldn't bolt to your stock knuckle on the cougar. you would be bolting the sides of two bushes together. will the knuckles also swap over?

 

[Herak]

Possibly a knuckle swap, but ideally would prefer to find a way to have the subframe and arms the only parts that need swapping.
Once I find all the relevant measurements etc, I can start to look for some aftermarket adjustable arms that would accept a collar/spacers without the overhang the current blade versions have - or make some.

 

[rooster2100]

Possibly a knuckle swap, but ideally would prefer to find a way to have the subframe and arms the only parts that need swapping.
Once I find all the relevant measurements etc, I can start to look for some aftermarket adjustable arms that would accept a collar/spacers without the overhang the current blade versions have - or make some.

it wouldn't be hard.

A C shaped bracket the size of the end of the U shaped control arm. Sorry if my teminology isnt what you call it. the Bar the sway bar bolts through. a bolt coming through the center of the C Threaded into a piece of control arm pipe. I think my toe arms are 7/8". Then run the bar up to a Heim joint at the top.

Run a long bolt through the new end and the stock arm tighten those down. get a tape measure and measure your length stock and then just add and subtract how far you want to move it.

 

[Herak]

Knuckle swap would be easy, but then opens the doors to possibly needing new ABS rings to match what the Cougar expects to find, different mounting points for the forward arm meaning another replacement, etc. It's also adding extra cost to what is meant to be an easy-ish, but much cheaper replacement with much better part availability. For many that take their car to a garage, it also adds an awful lot of potential confusion for their mechanic when he tries to fit a Cougar specific part to a Mondeo hub. Frame and arms, fine. If it starts changing too much though, it's no longer a fully viable avenue for many to go down.