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Re: Ron Hopkinson suspension kit?

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Subject: Re: Ron Hopkinson suspension kit?
From: mit-eddie!pwcs.StPaul.GOV!phile@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Philip J Ethier)
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 90 13:09:09 CDT
 
> Seven Enterprises sells a sway bar kit called the Ron
> Hopkinson suspension kit.  The bars are 7/8" and 5/8"
> and include mounting hardware for the rear bar to put
> it on MGBs that didn't come with a rear bar.  Has
> anyone had experience with this kit?  Also, who is
> Ron Hopkinson?  A Brit friend of mine seems to recall
> hearing about him as a sports car racer.  My alternative
> sway bar kit would be an Addco from Victoria British.
> The prices are about $255 and $290, respectively, plus
> shipping.  I'm going to order this Satyrday or Monday,
> so a prompt reply would be most appreciated.  Direct
> email to me should go to sam@sco.COM or uunet!sco!sam,
> in addition to the mailing list.  Thanx ever so much.
>
> -me
>
I think Sam should go for the Seven or check around for other sources.
 ADDCO bars use cheap rubber bushings, charge extra for urathane
bushings, but the design, at least for my Spridget, is clunky, mushy,
binding, fragile garbage.  My heim-joint and nylon-bushed bar from
Winners's Circle is so much tighter and better designed and made than
either the ADDCO bar I had on there or the ones pictured in their new
catalog that it is amazing.  The price is about the same.  I would
call and find out what fittings Seven uses on these bars. If they're
heim-style ball-end joints, there is no contest.
phile@pwcs.stpaul.gov
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