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New MK Engineering Uprights/Hubs
Hellfire - 29/10/05 at 08:50 PM

Today I saw a new Upright/Hub manufactured by Martin the founder of MK Engineering.

The new Upright/Hub assembly looks clean and neat whilst being light and simple.

It's still under development and is in the prototype stage but this is a sneak preview of the item

welderman - 29/10/05 at 08:52 PM

Looks pretty inpressive, wonder if thats for his new seven type car.

Volvorsport - 29/10/05 at 09:54 PM

looks like a formula ford upright , nothing wrong with that of course !!

Triton - 29/10/05 at 10:01 PM

Hotbuggy uses something very similar

Peteff - 29/10/05 at 11:34 PM

What keeps it facing forwards?

Rorty - 30/10/05 at 04:45 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Peteff
What keeps it facing forwards?

An arm out each side with a large pair of MoleGrips.
They look like real monsters. The sand cars in the US have been using tubular spindles for about 30 years, but they're really light and much more compact.
This is the other extreme to MK's.

BTW, these are definitely not of my design or making!

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Avoneer - 30/10/05 at 08:51 AM

Why aren't we all using something like that Rorty?

Thanks,

Pat...

paulf - 30/10/05 at 09:23 AM

How do you get the correct inclination angle, scrub radius etc ?.I can see how the camber and castor are set by wishbone position but doesent it also require an offset between the swivel points?
Paul.

G.Man - 30/10/05 at 10:06 AM

quote:
Originally posted by paulf
How do you get the correct inclination angle, scrub radius etc ?.I can see how the camber and castor are set by wishbone position but doesent it also require an offset between the swivel points?
Paul.


Just what I was thinking, surely the upper fitting should be further inboard than the lower fitting?

Avoneer - 30/10/05 at 10:23 AM

They're dead vertical on the Mk2 Escort upright which is widely used on the Fury and Phoenix (and Striker I think) due to it's weight (a lot less compared to the Cortina and Sierra ones) and better geometry.

Pat...

G.Man - 30/10/05 at 10:41 AM

cool

Havent seen the escort ones, hence my query

Should be lighter and better than sierra ones thats for sure

Avoneer - 30/10/05 at 10:58 AM

Here's a pic I previously posted of a Mk2 Escort one (modded by adding a ball joint to the top) and Stuart Taylors new one.

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Mad Dave - 30/10/05 at 11:00 AM

quote:

Just what I was thinking, surely the upper fitting should be further inboard than the lower fitting?


I saw these on Saturday too, the upper mount is inboard of the lower by approx 8 degrees.

carnut - 30/10/05 at 03:19 PM

Will MK be selling these?

Rorty - 30/10/05 at 10:07 PM

If you think of the tubular part like a gear stick; you just revolveit and angle it to wherever you want the bearings for the chosen camber/castor.
Here are a couple more tubular uprights the first one is from a sand car which is probably only 50 kg lighter than a Locost.

Rorty - 30/10/05 at 10:09 PM

The second one is for a much heavier car, perhaps up to 1750 kg.