Re: Alfetta SZ dedion bearing

[John Holliday <fprodget@domain.elided>]

Richard,

I am installing the SZ bearing in my alfetta. It fits
with some minor machining or filing if you are
patient. My experience is tat everything is the same
except for the height of the outer aluminum sleeve.
You will need to take some material off of the top and
bottom of the sleeve so that it will fit in the Dedion
frame. I worked with Michael at Glynn Motorsports to
work mine out. I have the dimensions at home and can
send them to you later.

John Holliday
79 Alfetta Sprint Veloce

Richard Welty wrote:
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 20:45:09 -0400 (EDT)
From: Richard Welty <rwelty@domain.elided>
Subject: "SZ-style" DeDion bushing in an Alfetta

up until last year, it'd been my opinion that
substituting heim joints 
or
other spherical bearings in SCCA IT suspensions was a
highly 
questionable
practice. i have spent a little time discussing it
with Kurt Weiss of 
the
SCCA Competition board, and he's persuaded me that the
Comp board 
intended
such bearing substitutions to be legal as long as the
control 
arms/other
suspension members and the mounting points are not
modified to 
facilitate
the swap.

therefore, the SZ-style DeDion bushing has suddenly
gotten my 
attention, as
it's evidently a legal IT mod. has anyone gotten it to
work in an 
Alfetta?
IAP's catalog claims it works, but Alfettas generally
require a 
different
bushing there from the GTV-6/Milano.

i'm also pondering substituting spherical bearings of
some kind in the
front suspension inner mounting points.

thanks in advance,
  richard
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