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    Can't wait to see how the pedal box turns out. Great update.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Iain View Post
    Can't wait to see how the pedal box turns out. Great update.
    Agree love a bit of custom fabrication

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    Quote Originally Posted by TallDave View Post
    I've finally started to get my act together with the welding, I started to get the chassis strengthening plates welded in after a bit of jiggery pokery to get them to fit nicely.



    You can see that the front nearside lower suspension plates are in, as they are on the drivers side, the nearside front chassis rail plate has also been added along with the reinforcing plate for the front cross member.

    As an aside you can just about make out the 'Cree' Led Headlight stuck on top of my welding helmet, I got pished off seeing only the workshop lights reflecting off the inside of the screen, so now I can turn them off and still see where I'm starting to weld, works very well so that's a result

    Done the strut tops as well, it is tricky doing a continual weld on these because their profile doesn't match the standard strut tops, having said that I think there is enough weld there to hold them in place over even the roughest airfield single venue.
    Place reinforcing plate in position...

    Cut out in order to accomodate the adjustable top mounts...

    Weld...


    Need to do some tidying up before slapping on some etch primer to try and keep the tin worm at bay.
    Hi Dave, how comes you have had to cut the strut tops of to fit the top mounts. Seen other builds keeping original strut tops with welded plate onto like yours. Is this because of the different top mounts you can get?
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    It's normally done to enable you to run adjustable top mounts.
    Nick

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    Quote Originally Posted by JoeWak98 View Post
    Hi Dave, how comes you have had to cut the strut tops of to fit the top mounts. Seen other builds keeping original strut tops with welded plate onto like yours. Is this because of the different top mounts you can get?
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    As totalnova says, and indeed I said in my text, the enlarged centre hole enable you to run adjustable top mounts (illustrated), thus enabling an increase in Camber/Caster, combined with camber adjustable bolts at the knuckle/strut interface should enable sufficient fine tuning for most...?
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    what camber/caster angles do you run for tarmac/track?

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    Quote Originally Posted by sibzy View Post
    what camber/caster angles do you run for tarmac/track?
    An excellent question sir, sadly not one I'm able to answer for you as the car is still a project , I'm hoping to run as much caster as I can using the standard wishbone setup with the camber optimised for track stage use (whatever that is...). The later I can apply supplementary adjustment by using adjustment bolts at the Strut/Steering Knuckle joint.

    Your question is probably better aimed at Iain or 8vCraig who run track-day and race cars respectively..
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    It’s worth having a read of the Group A PDF knocking about that explained what those cars used on tarmac stages. Maybe consider reducing all the settings a little bit if it’s used on the road too.

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    Nice build, nice spec 👍

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