RSS feeds available Dont miss the latest news Cortina news feed Classified adds feed ACT small Ford muster We will be in Canberra for this event. .............................................. August 16th 2010 UK Cortina MK1 National rally images ready for viewing in the gallery ........................................... July 21st New items available for your MK1 check out the price list for updates ............................................ June 17th Two new cars added to drag Cortina page. Zetec & SR20 powered. HERE ............................................ May 30th Work progressing on our 63 GT restoration. Mk2 Cortina replacement sills available soon. ............................................ Visit the Classifieds! Free to list - Free to sell For small Ford owners Register, and you can place your own adds. Click here! ............................................. April 29th MK1 Cortina strut braces ready to order. Please go Here for info ............................................ March 19th MK2 Cortina Inner and outer Tie rods now available .............................................. March 3rd AOMC Classic car show pictures ready for viewing in the gallery ............................................ February 14th Hanging rock images in the gallery Ballarat hotrod drag drags also in the gallery YouTube video of both events also ............................................ February New! version of alloy rocker covers available Here ............................................... February 7th Small Ford Sunday images ready for viewing in the gallery You tube videos on the cortina-mk1 channel ............................................... October 19th New design strut tops No change over required. See details here .............................................. August 26 Rust repair sill sections for MK1 cortinas. Go here for details ............................................... August 19 New albums in the gallery Classic Ford show UK and images from Norway cortina club AGM ............................................... August 16 Updates made thoughout the site. Also new pages to our new project V8 here. ............................................... May 26 Images from the Small Ford Alliance drag day at Heathcote park here and video here We broke the gearbox on start line ............................................... April 10 Media page updated Small Ford alliance Dyno day Videos HERE and images in the gallery See our dyno printout HERE .............................................. February 15 New! All Ford Day images in the gallery Plus video HERE ............................................... February 10 Our 2 door deluxe featured in 'Street Fords' HERE! .................................................... January 2nd New tech guide to fitting Datsun crankshafts into Kent blocks HERE ! ................................................

Front suspension
Our front end consists of 24mm adjustable castor sway bar mounted to adjustable control arms. KYB inserts fill the GT strut tubes which are fitted with adjustable spring platforms. Fitted to the top of the strut is also K-Mac nolathane adjustable. Strut brace connects between the two. The red 'thing' you can see on the bottom of the gearbox bell housing is our ballistic blanket. Fitted for safety and racing requirements.

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The Struts
These front struts are fitted to our 4 door. The adjustability now gives us plenty of options. With our adjustable front sway bar, lower control arms, top strut mounts and adjustable spring platforms we can certainly 'play' around with a lot of settings. Currently running 1 degree negative camber, 2 degrees positive caster and 1.5 toe-in. The car now feels very stable and very easy to steer. Very pleased with the results.
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Lower control arms
These units are made to make camber adjustment much easier, you also can get a lot more adjustment using these over the usual adjustable strut tops. These are our own and are fitted to the GT 4 door. We are NOT making these arms, and we are not selling them either. These have been inspected and tested for fatigue stress using magnetic particle testing. Fully certified.

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Rear suspension
We had problems with the original leaf springs because of the extra power and torque generated. We found the leaf springs were just bending at the front causing bad handling, so we have now fitted 10mm solid leaf springs. This has made releasing the clutch when launching much more predictable. Since then we have more power and the problem arose again. Now we have fitted extra arms supporting the leaf spring and preventing it from further axle tramp.

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