4000 series hub / upright / spidle options

[Bernica]

The guys at SAI are good folks. They should be able to help and walk you through this. They stand behind their product.

[Three Peaks]

Unless they made some major revisions in this particular vehicle, I can't understand why they don't just take one of their off-the-shelf spindles and take care of this problem. Should be a bolt in proposition- of course then you would need a new alignment, etc... but at least this problem would be solved.

Hopefully, SAI will step up to the plate and get this done since this is really their mistake, and not really a warranty issue as much as a piss poor design and safety issue.

Hope you get it resolved with SAI quickly so you can enjoy the summer driving season.

Bob

[shelby racer]

Originally Posted by Three Peaks

Unless they made some major revisions in this particular vehicle, I can't understand why they don't just take one of their off-the-shelf spindles and take care of this problem. Should be a bolt in proposition- of course then you would need a new alignment, etc... but at least this problem would be solved.

Hopefully, SAI will step up to the plate and get this done since this is really their mistake, and not really a warranty issue as much as a piss poor design and safety issue.

Hope you get it resolved with SAI quickly so you can enjoy the summer driving season.

Bob

Exactly what I was hoping for - to just send me new parts to take care of the problem. The say they don't have anything different available right now. It is funny that several people have suggested giving my car back to SAI and asking for a new roller and transfering the csx vin number and bascially starting fresh and letting them do what ever they want with the old roller (crush it, study it, re-vin it). Unfortunately It will still involve A LOT of labor to transfer the parts I have added to make it a car (assuming that they would fit on the new chassis - ever wonder why the header kit is a bunch of tubes that need to be cut / fit / welded?). Something tells me that they don't want to build me another car - even though that may have been the right thing to do when I had my first set of problems. Probably would have avoided a lot of what I have had to go through since.

[shelby racer]

Originally Posted by Bernica

The guys at SAI are good folks. They should be able to help and walk you through this. They stand behind their product.

I agree 100% that the guys at SAI are great. I think I just got a lemon and it was worse than anyone wants to think or admit. The old SAI (company) had real issues, but the new SAI has been like a totally different company. I also just think that they don't know what to do with me and the car. Someone from the old company told me that the reason why I was having so many problems originally was because "it was a cobra and I just don't know what I am doing". He appologozed when I brought it back to Las Vegas and he saw it for himself.
The funniest thing is when I called Kirkham this week to see if they had parts or suggestions on how to fix my front end I was also told that "I didn't know what I was talking about" - but in this case it was a matter of lingo and calling the parts by the right name and defining what I meant when I talked about the front end being servicable. By the end of the conversation we were both exactly on the same page - and they had a solution - a whole new front end.

[Power Surge]

What exactly is the problem? Is is that the allen head bolts that are behind the rotor that bolt the two chunks of aluminum for the upright together are loose? If so, can't you get to them with a cut down allen wrench? If not, what about just drilling through the back of the block and tapping the other section and then putting a bolt in from behind with some loctite? As mentioned, you should be able to adjust the front end with the control arms.

As for the previous style (like my car), it's the same thing, just with an original style upright instead of the billet. And the original uprights are weak loads of crap.

[shelby racer]

Originally Posted by Power Surge

What exactly is the problem? Is is that the allen head bolts that are behind the rotor that bolt the two chunks of aluminum for the upright together are loose? If so, can't you get to them with a cut down allen wrench? If not, what about just drilling through the back of the block and tapping the other section and then putting a bolt in from behind with some loctite? As mentioned, you should be able to adjust the front end with the control arms.

As for the previous style (like my car), it's the same thing, just with an original style upright instead of the billet. And the original uprights are weak loads of crap.

Lets see now. Yes the allen head bolts are loose so when you stop or accelerate the caster changes and the bolts are trying to be sheared, to serice the rotor you have to take the whole upright and steering arm off the control arms and ties rod arm and then press the spindle off the hub. The front part of the upright is slotted so a new piece would have to be fabricated if you wanted to drill though the back and tap it. You can not get any allen wrench into the space or make it work sincethe clearence between it and the rotor is less that the diameter of an 8mm or 5/16 allen wrench and the heads are recessed in the slot inside the upper part of the block on the front of the upright and you can not ever see the the allen head which is at the lower part of the same block.......