Marcos Maniacs

Woh!!!!

Whilst the REAR AXLE is from a Cortina GT, you won't get far buying 
Cortina bushes! The Cortina had leaf springs!!!! 

As far as I know the rear suspension is pure Marcos, but the bushes 
in the leading arms (I think that's the correct term) are Austin A35.

Essentially the suspension looks like this :


      o------o  ---> Front of car
      X
      o------o

Where the X is the axle (with special brackets welded on) and 
the 'o's are the bushes.

I was about to say you can Polyurethane bushes and looked for 
Superflex (which I've used on the front of my car and can recommend) 
and found the following URL which lists all the bushes you could need.

http://www.racecar.co.uk/superflex/m-p.html

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

Mark

--- In MarcosManiacs@y..., "Tad Todd" <gtcoastie@m...> wrote:
> --- In MarcosManiacs@y..., "dave barton" <dbarton62@y...> wrote:
> > Hi Group,
> >         What is the rear suspension out of on the GT's.......is 
it 
> > pure Marcos or is it stock Capri.?? All the bushings are shot on 
> mine.
> >                 Dave #5511
> 
> Hi Dave,
> 
> I can answer for the 3.0s in that the rear suspension is Ford 
> Cortina.  A few of the early Marcos used a DeDion independent rear 
as 
> well.  That is about all I can tell you on the rear.  Bushings for 
> the Cortina rear should be pretty available.  Try Dave Bean 
> Engineering out of California.  If they don't have it, they should 
be 
> able to refer you to someone who does.
> 
> Good luck,
> Tad