Looks the danglies.
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Looks the danglies.
OK, so the problems are what I already knew I'd come across.
Having it that low, on my current 8" springs leaves the tyre wall resting against the spring, and rotating the spring every turn of the wheel.
So I could possibly run 6" springs, which will drop the car exactly 2" which is 50.8mm lower, with the adjusters in the same location as they are at the moment.
However, in those pics, which is about right, height wise at the front, that is 68mm lower than previously, so 6" springs wouldn't be low enough. Going down to 5" spring would make the drop circa 75mm lower than it currently is, which is too low. lol
The ID of my springs currently is 63mm, now I could run some universal 2.25" ID springs, which are 58.5mm ID, which saves me 5.5mm ID total circumference, which is only 2.75mm on each edge, which is negliable.
So I could increase my spacers, whic could give me another 2mm... but again not a great deal.
So Me & Kristan have been chatting, and I might alter my suspension leg to enable the lower part of my shock to sit more inwardly towards the car (Kristan to supply excellent picture lol) this will solve all problems, and I could make it so it sits miles inwards away from the tyre so I'd never have problems again.
So for now, until I've decided what I'm going to do, I've raised it back up again, to do some workings out - and then I'll start the development of that.
Kris - away you go with our suggestion picture lol
Car is looking gooood! Proper track day whore!! Wings looked odd at first, but are growing on me! If they help with wheel clearance then its got to be a good thing!
God I hope I don't get all this grief when I go to put my coilovers on!
yeah me and olly have been discussing a few things and the way i see it is he could do a few things to help solve his clearnce issues at the lowest height oe any height were the adjuster is inline or below the inside tyre level
these are just quick rough sketches to try and illustrate my point not sure if it they would work cant see why not as olly runs solid top mounts with the rose joint centre so would allow shocker to move inwardly whilst pivoting
my first suggestion would be to make the brackets that come of the shock that bolt to the hub carrier longer thus moving the shock from \ plane to a more vertical plane and with the smaller id springs almost 3mm clearance just form the springs i think it could result in quite a bit of added clearence between tyre side wall and the shock/spring, and i know the spring seat adjuster is still the original diameter but that would be below the level of the rim lip so below top of wheel level :confused:
anyway heres how i see if could be done quite easily
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ockdiagram.jpg
and a very exagerated pic just to illustrate my idea
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...a/untitled.jpg
another issue we could see possibly would be that moving the shock back would hit the mounting bracket where the metal brake pipe meets the goodridge sticks out but that could easily be moved and relocated further along out of the way and a new metal brake pipe made up
another way that could help with the clearance and not to sure on the consequences onthe handling weather it would be detremental to the handling and geometry setup but as olly has fully ajustable everything on the front i cant see it casuing to many serious issues, would be to move the shocker mount point turret inwards towards engine bay bit like cp has done iirc, i amsure theres an easy way to solve the clearnce issues escribed by olly
heres my view and opinons but think it could work and be a relatively easy fix,
The good thing about what we've got planned with the lower shock mounts, is that the leg doesn't sit vertical anyway, as we all know, it sits top inward, and bottom outward, so extending the "arms" so to speak, would help alot.
And I've checked clearences, and there is no way you could possibly get the shock absorber mounted in the lower "to scale" picture that Kris has drawn, which is good news.
cant see a reason why it shouldnt work mate see a pretty easy and straight forward fix to me, little gains form little things like 3mm on the springs and a few mill on the lower shock absorber mounting arms and possibly space will add up to a lot of clearence and hopefully solve your problems with tyre spring contact
That does look the fuc.king bollocks Olz!!
As the tyre touches the spring could you not run the 1.9mm spring?
I'm deffo pround, thats a nice ride height.... Ooo i think i've cum.Quote:
Originally Posted by trackdaynova
Car looks funking ace! Colour match is perfect! Funking good work dude.