{"id":1702,"date":"2017-02-15T11:30:44","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T11:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clubgti.com\/wordpress\/?p=1702"},"modified":"2019-04-06T13:39:01","modified_gmt":"2019-04-06T12:39:01","slug":"gurds-mars-red-mk1-get-some-more-suspension-mods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clubgti.com\/wordpress\/gurds-mars-red-mk1-get-some-more-suspension-mods\/","title":{"rendered":"Gurds Mars Red Mk1 Get Some more Suspension mods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tBearing issues highlighted at Spa meant I was on the hunt for an upgrade. I think the extra grip from the Aero and wider tyres contributing to the bearings and flanges suffering. I first had a flange failure in 2015 and now again showing wear at Spa. Initially I looked into boring out the mk1 uprights to take a larger mk2\/mk3 golf bearing and flanges but wall thickness of the housing concerns were raised by many. I looked into the possibility of running late mk2\/mk3 4 stud uprights instead. This with coincide with fitting a new set of weld in ball joint extenders at the same time.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1704 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/clubgti.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/marsmk1-2-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clubgti.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/marsmk1-2-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/clubgti.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/marsmk1-2.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Full write up here: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/clubgti.com\/showthread.php?164051-My-Mars-Red-Mk1-Brands-Hatch-Trackday-P64\/page63\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><font color=\"RED\">Link to Full Thread<\/font><\/a><\/strong>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bearing issues highlighted at Spa meant I was on the hunt for an upgrade. I think the extra grip from the Aero and wider tyres contributing to the bearings and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1703,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clubgti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clubgti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clubgti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clubgti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clubgti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/clubgti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2004,"href":"https:\/\/clubgti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702\/revisions\/2004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clubgti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clubgti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clubgti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clubgti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}