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Bushing housing is aluminum. Bar pin is aluminum yes the ball joint removal is the bigger challenge They weren’t a different material …far closer to big rotors than most others.

Pete, understood on the details Of note, there is an incredible amount of detail I won’t post to make this kind of replacement a high confidence robust solution for safety critical parts on a 200 mph supercar. In DFMEA speak every characteristic is a 9 or 10. Those joints were pressed in...

Yes they can be recreated. We are looking at this with some upgrades. I am nearly certain there wasn’t any billet arms warrantied

Great video!

Nope. The forged arm is the only OEM replacement. This is another area I may go after longer term with a few bushings replaced for multiple improvements. We did ~1500 car sets of the billet arms until the forged arms were ready for production...12,000 arms.

Alright! Will continue to ask.

No, with the increased interface friction between the new billet arm and busing/balljoint housing the bushings were only pushing in halfway with the same machining dimensions, tolerances, process and forces as prior. So we had to adjust...quickly. Fortunately, ZF, the supplier for some of our...

Plenty more to come...as noted, I am working on getting a good FGT design video series going. Is the following detail to mundane/technical? We had to change the bushing and balljoint bore machining tolerances and process for these billet arms because the 6061-T6 aluminum has a lot more...

You are most welcome! So many details and stories

Good guess. Just over 20% of the raw billet was scrapped. This was primarily because the edges (sides and ends) of the giant billet ingot (I don't recall for sure, but I believe in the 10' x 20' region) had laps/cracks from the manufacturing process. The huge ingot is cast and then rolled to...

Yep so much good stuff to include. I'll be visiting you in AZ and Rich Brooks, Denis, etc. Denis was devastated when Jeff Walsh and I destroyed CP4 in final testing...I had to assure him we were OK, but he didn't care. LOL He just had the 1000 foot stare in the general direction of the bent GT...

Glad you like it. There is so much. I am looking at doing a '05-'06 Ford GT design/engineering video series from start to finish. So many details and good stories from the program. This would include interviews with many of my FGT engineering teammates (technicians and all - everyone but...

I sourced the machined upper control arms to Roush and the Lowers to Multimatic. I split them due to risk and nearing capacity limits.

We were battling Boeing for sourcing every certified billet of 6061-T6 and then still ultra sounding and x-raying each billet before going to Roush and Multimatic. I can't recall if Wixom held these pieces before or after this testing step.

Fairly certain #31 is BAT...the only Orange car there

When I said shock replacement I was referring to the suspension coilovers because of the door strut that mounts over it. I couldn't tell you about this door assemblies strut/absorber durability, but removal of this doors strut from mounting requires somehow supporting the whole door assembly...

Holding this door up and removing and replacing shocks is a challenge. Doable. But not straight forward to support the door without the gas strut attached to its mount.

Holding the door open without the gas shock support takes some rigging and care. I was there with Wwabbit when we did our Ohlins install in 2014. CobraDan in MA just dealt with a shock install with these doors on a customer car. Not straight forward.

I agree with Kendall on operating one in person. Of note, their gas struts in the kit go forward to the front shock mount. This works with stock coilovers. It is a difficult process to avoid damage to the car if you have to replace the front dampers after this scissor door actuation is installed.

*Meant "In our 2012..." not I our