Whats your favorite CC plates and struts?

OrangeMustangGt

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I have stock struts and UPR cc plates....whell, they have clunked from day one that i installed them.

What brands have you found that work good? ALso what struts do you like for a street car? thanks guys

 

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I have the FMS CC plates and they don't make noise. The downfall to these is that you can't adjust CC individually. You have to set both at the same time and then tighten the three bolts.
I have the Strange 10-way adjustables which are fine BUT, the shaft is smaller in diameter than the inside of the spacers and bearings on the CC plates. This makes a rattling noise when you hit small bumps in the road. You have to shim the strut's shaft to make a tight fit inside the spacers of the CC plates. This seems to be common with Strange's struts regardless of the type of CC plates used from what I have found on the net.

 

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i have the Caster Plus kit from Kenny Brown, with the Tokico HP struts, and it rides nice and quiet, and handles much better, not to mention the softer ride i got over stock struts


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Maximum Motorsports CC plates and Bilstein Struts. rides great, no noise.

 

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I have tokcio illuminas and mm cc plates. The plates make noises every now and then, but its not bad.

 

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tokico illuminas and MM c/c plates as well, no noise and i've been very happy with them. of course, i couldnt hear any noise over the dumped flows anyway, lol

 

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[quote='94ChickStang]Maximum Motorsports CC plates and Bilstein Struts. rides great, no noise.[/quote]

Yep

 

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Pro3i plates and Bilsteins. If there's noise from the front, I cannot verify that it comes from the plates.

 

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I have UPR 4 bolts with Kyb's. I think you said before we have the same plates but I've never noticed any noise

 

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Steeda 4 bolt with Bilsteins. No noise and pretty forgiving of a ride.

 

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JJ95GTID said:

I have the Strange 10-way adjustables which are fine BUT, the shaft is smaller in diameter than the inside of the spacers and bearings on the CC plates. This makes a rattling noise when you hit small bumps in the road. You have to shim the strut's shaft to make a tight fit inside the spacers of the CC plates

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holy crap! that sounds like the exact problem i have been having. i have the strange 10 way struts too and the mm c/c plates and it rattles like hell when the road is sort of bumpy. god it's annoying. i have always thought it was the coil-overs, but now i think it is the struts.

tell me more about these shims and where i can get them, please!

 

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I have strange 10 ways and steeda 4 bolt plates. I can not give you much feedback though as I only got to drive the car a few days with these parts before I blew it up.

 

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MM CC plates, heard nothing but good things about them.

 

MysteryMachine

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Black vert: I believe they are all made like that the shims are suppose to come with them when you buy them. They kinda look like small pieces of pipe in different thickness.

I think this is what you guys are talking about.

 

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I ran Bilstein struts/shocks and Steeda C/C plates in my old 92 GT
and I was very happy with that set up.

 

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I'm just throwing this out there, but is it possible that the 4 bolts are less prone to rattle or make noise since they have that extra bolt securing them?

 

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maximos said:

I'm just throwing this out there, but is it possible that the 4 bolts are less prone to rattle or make noise since they have that extra bolt securing them?

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That will not happen if they are installed correctly.

 

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BlackVert said:

holy crap! that sounds like the exact problem i have been having. i have the strange 10 way struts too and the mm c/c plates and it rattles like hell when the road is sort of bumpy. god it's annoying. i have always thought it was the coil-overs, but now i think it is the struts.

tell me more about these shims and where i can get them, please!

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I'm affraid there is no part number for a shim. You have to fix it yourself. Some guys have wrapped the shaft with a tin tape from Home D. and others have used black electric tape to make the tightest fit possible. They stated that it rides like a stock setup once the shaft's play was eliminated. I tried cutting out strips of aluminum from a soda/pop can and shim it that way but I guess I didn't get enough in there as it started rattling again after a short time. I am thinking about doing the black tape method next.

I emailed Strange and their response is that they made the shaft's thickness to fit a stock camber plate to within .01". Then, they wanted me to send them one of my CC plates so they could see what the problem was. I need my car for daily driving so I can't do this. Besides the strut itself works fine it is the fitment inside the CC shims that is the problem. You'd think they could buy a set off FMS CC plates and figure out what the problem is on their own.

I AM NOT THE FIRST TO CONTACT THEM ABOUT THIS ISSUE!!!! http://forums.************.com/showthread.php?postid=457676
Just type m o d u l a r d e p o t where the *********** is. For some reason it won't let me paste the link correctly.

 

OrangeMustangGt

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i still have stock struts but something rattles......My cc plates are upr 4 bolt types and i did find a LITTLE bit of up and down play in the bearing, do any of yours have this, or could this be my knocking?

 

JJ95GTID

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GreenMustangGt said:

i still have stock struts but something rattles......My cc plates are upr 4 bolt types and i did find a LITTLE bit of up and down play in the bearing, do any of yours have this, or could this be my knocking?

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Up/down play in a CC bearing is not good. I would tell UPR and have them replaced for quality issues.