I cant believe it but my car was built with TAS top mounts in it , theyre crap at best and the bearings fail instantly , my ones had so much play in them i was worried about jacking the car up and the struts falling out .
Replacement gold line bearings were over £100 so i devised a plan to get round it !
The very best Top mounts are WRC items.huge bearings and indestructable , also readily available , only drawback is the mods require to your turret tops mean you need the longer struts to suit the WRC hubs , that and i didn't have time to fk about !
So heres the best of both worlds , not expensive and still retains std turret tops .

 

They look like some serious shit

 

Simple but effective!

 

Nice job Tony.....

Never had a WRC top mount fail....

Ian

 

They are the Tits Ian , stole em off e-bay and promised myself i'd fit them one day , this seemed the logical way to get them on and not have to weld on the towers we spoke about which meant changing struts

 

Spot on pal....they only raised the turret due to the increased travel of the dynamics shockers....Your method may prove better for the race car as by the looks you can adjust eccentricity on the top mount...on the world car its fixed at the outer most point.....is your car on standard or ally hubs?

 

That was partly my idea for the design the WRC mounts fit inside the turret and the TAS plates allow all the adjustment , the cars on the Alloy GpA hubs which have slotted dampers for camber , this means i dont even have to change springs , maybe a bit of adjustment on spring platform but even thats quite close i reckon .

 

Tony how much would a pair of those WRC mounts set me back roughly mate ?

Already got the TAS eccentric plates here.

 

 

I`m running ones similar to the Tas ones but with Goldman bearings in them,Hope they will last a bit better....

If they turn out crap i now know what to do...

 

The wrc mounts were a few hundred quid , sure theyre more than that if you go searching for them tho ?!

 

How about the ones that Comprake and Burton sell (maybe the same parts), are they good quality? They are well priced atleast.

 

I thought Compbrake is/was TAS?

 

My ohlins have a spherical top mount rose joint....i take it that is quite good?

 

Compbrake are some of the staff from TAS. The other half of the staff formed another company.

 

Does that mean that the Compbrake ones are any different to the original TAS ones???

 

I'd imagine so as ohlins are fooking quality shocks.

 

dont bloody start him

 

...they were 10k new you know

 

Looks like it!!!

http://www.compbrake.co.uk/top_mounts1.htm

 

 

I know how much ohlins cost new

 

i cant see these pics

 

me either, update plz........

 

tony piccies aint working no more mate