Are the roller spring perches, roller UCA's, or roller LCA's worth the price.... or worth the time spent on building them yourself? If you only had to choose one, which would you say provides the greatest added benefit? And if anyone has any of these installed on their car, how do they perform? And did you buy them or build them? Thanks.

 

Most say the spring perches are worth the money.To me for the price for everything roller i could almost buy tcp or global west coilovers.

 

HELL YES they are worth it. Just did almost a full roller. Only left out the strut rods. If you only had to choose one, I think I would do the perches. Biggest bind I think over anything. Built the stuff with parts I bought from Opentracker.

 

The roller perches are definitely worth the money. They free up a lot of suspension bind to allow the springs and shocks to perform the way they should. I actually broke a new shock before swapping to roller perches, and I know someone else who's broken a couple. Since installing them, the car rides smoother and the tires don't skitter as much over broken pavement.

The other stuff is good to have, but whether or not it's worth it depends on how you're going to use the car. If it's going to see frequent autocross or track use, then I'd say yes. Any suspension bind you can remove is going to help improve suspension response.

 

All I can say is I have Granada spindles, and when I installed roller perches, it made it so wacky that I couldn't drive it 100 yards. I immediately took them off

 

The problem with stock perches is that they don't ship them in anywhere close to installation position. I wound up cracking my UCA trying to pry them into position to correctly accept the spring. The rollers are significantly more expensive but not more expensive than buying the new perches and a UCA.

 

Do you have Ford Granada spindles or CSRP ? I bet with roller perches it could have made any bump steer issues very easy to detect.

 

Good. I'm glad to hear that the roller perches are the parts that make the greatest improvement to the ride, mainly because I don't have the money to go full roller and the perches are the cheapest of them all. So probably I'll just go with the roller perches and some aftermarket Scott Drake upper and lower control arms... I was told that SD makes the best aftermarket arms. Any opinions on this?

 

Scott Drake does sell the best UCA on the market, those are the ones we use to make into our standard upper arms. You will want to check the shaft to make sure it's centered in the arm. Most of the arms I get have the shaft offset to one side. An easy way to center it is to knock the bolts out and spin the shaft till it's centered, then press the bolts back in.

In my opinion, Moog makes the best lower arm on the market.

I do agree with everyone else. The roller control arms are overkill for a street car. The two roller parts that help the most are the roller perches and the roller idler arm. The roller idler arm keeps the pass. side of the center link from moving up and down under braking and on rough roads.

 

Opentracker, I'm glad to see you on here. I was going to email you at your website but in case you see this post maybe you could give me a little more advice. When installing adjustable strut rods on a 66, do you have to also install lower control arms with the spherical bearing inside pivot? This will be the first time I work on my suspension (other than springs and shocks) so I am still learning. Does the spherical bearing inside pivot vs. stock rubber bushing design allow the LCA to rotate at the spot where it is mounted to the car??? When installing the adjustable strut rods, do you have to modify the frame of the car at all? My car is definitely not a track car but I do like to have fun with it on the streets and the idea of being able to adjust the camber without the hassle of shims is nice too. I have real bad "bump steer" currently and I was hoping that an entire suspension and steering rebuild would help mitigate this. Most likely going to drop the UCA's as well.

As far as the roller idler arm goes, I've heard that you lose that effect of the steering wheel snapping back into place following cornering. I don't know how I would like that.