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completely off the wall comment here colin, but is there any way to mount the axle flange onto the inside of the beam with the shaft poking thru the hole.? that would move it in a heap... and if you did end up going wide arch, you could move it back out.....
tbh saving 8kg for maybe a few hundread quid is very good value.
i suspect the F1 guys spend millions to loose weight, im sure somewhere i heard befor, they spend a million to gain a second...
Hi Ben.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ben
Yes, it would have been a very nice combination, but unfortunately it wouldn't have been legal for the 'Modified Production Class' regulations in hillclimbing.
But widetrack would be..?
TBH I dislike wide arched novas full stop, if it were mine I'ud reengineer heaven & earth to avoid that route.
It's another very interesting suggestion from you. I will investigate!Quote:
Originally Posted by mowgli
And the other point raised about losing the flange is a good one, although there's a lot of leverage going through that mounting plate, and I'm not sure if it would be man enough without it.
If they gained an entire second spending the last million on the car it'd most likely be the most economic advance in F1 since the 80'slolQuote:
Originally Posted by bmw156
you dont remove the flange altogether, you reweld it on the inside of the beamQuote:
Originally Posted by novarally
Continuing from Mowgli's inspired suggestion about moving the stub axle to the inside face of the mounting, I have been experimenting;
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I definitely think this is the right way to be going with it, although there are some issues to overcome, inevitably.
1. The stub axle isn't fitting flush to the mounting face at the moment, as the hole in the beam axle isn't quite big enough for it to pass through. This can easily be solved by making the hole larger, or machining a little bit off the stub axles.
2. This is the bigger problem.....you can see I've had to bend over the mounting 'tab' for the rear shock absorber, to give clearance to pass the stub axle through. This was also assisted by the fact that currently the stub axle is in 2 pieces (it hasn't been welded yet)!
I reckon that the shock absorber mounting bracket would have to be made to be removeable so that this could be achieved.
Nothing too problematic, and the upsides are that it reduces the track increase to maybe 10mm on each side, and it makes the fabrication of a caliper mounting bracket far easier, as it now has a square face to mount onto, which is also closer to the caliper.
that looks like quite a good solution.
i do watch/read this thread alot.
p.s can you not move the bracket for the suspension over abit? or is that not allowed in your rules?
good work :)
^Would still be a issue as its not all assembled yet.
Plus it would mean turreting in the rear and losing half the chassis leg.