anyone ACTUALLY know for sure?

[Redlined]

I have been told that the escort 90-96 year springs/coilovers fit the mx-3 but does anyone have them? I havent heard of anyone that has. I know of the struts but not the springs only.

[Talon_66]

Im interested in finding this one out also. My friend has an escort, basically he sunk $20,000 into it and wrote it off. Lots of parts I could scam

[Redlined]

hahahaha yeah I havent heard of a real answer yet just people saying what year but I havent heard of anyone with them yet maybe I just cant find it.

[Talon_66]

My friend has a 90 Escort, totally did it up, wrote it off. And he says I can take whatever I want off his car. Hell if I need it I can take his ACT Stage 3. But I already have a new Centerforce.

[Gro Harlem]

They use the same suspension as us so yes, all of their springs and coilovers will fit. I'm using some escort ground-control coilovers right now on my car and some zx2 struts.

[RaspMetalicMX3SE]

i have arospeed coilovers for Escorts on my MX

[johnnyb]

put it this way.....


if you can put the MX-3 springs on the escort struts then dont you think the escort springs will fit on an mx-3 struts?

[nope-mx3]

Originally posted by Talon_66:
My friend has a 90 Escort, totally did it up, wrote it off. And he says I can take whatever I want off his car. Hell if I need it I can take his ACT Stage 3. But I already have a new Centerforce.

Ask how much he wants for it. I need a good clutch _cheap_

nope-mx3

[ZXTuner]

Haha.. I'm your resident ZX2/Escort guy... if you have any questions, I'll do my best to answer them. And if you are looking for a definitive answer to this qustion, it is a big Y-E-S.

[ProtegeSTS]

the suspensions aren't the same.

They do use a few interchangeable parts though.

The swaybars from the MX-3 are unique.

The springs all interchange.

[X3-RCKT]

How about the balljoints? It seems the balljoint "shaft?" dont know what you would call it but the extention from the ball to the spindle itself, is bigger than the X3 Balljoint. However,they do bolt up. Also, the mounting plate seems shorter.

[Gro Harlem]

when I replaced one of my balljoints, the part was exactly teh same as the ones I used on my protege 2 years earlier.

The only difference in the MX3 suspension is the control arms, trailiing arms and the swaybar setup, everything else seems to interchange.

[X3-RCKT]

Ok that just confused me more! Rofl. So the Protege balljoints are the same as the X3? instead of the Escorts balljoints?

The problem i have is this. I went to Hedahls and bought new balljoints for MX-3. Previously i had gone and gotten a balljoint from an Escort GT and put it on the car. It seems ALMOST the same but like i had said earlier. The stem piece that fits in the spindle was a bit bigger around and the mounting bracket a bit shorter. So now i put the ones that are supposedly for the MX-3 onto my car, my friend Jason and I are driving and we took a corner. The smaller stem piece fell out of the spindle, the tire slammed into my fender, bending my just completed sanding and priming job. So....... To say the Escort one and the X3 one are the same is not exactly correct. I measured the two stems and the Escort on was almost 3/8 in diameter bigger. This could have gotten people killed if i had been at cruising speed.
The really bad part is that my spindle is not formed to the size of an Escort and if i want to go back i will have to replace my spindle. Egads!

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