I used a grinder on my wings lol
I think the belt sander pic you spoke of earlier, is you getting me confused with Spanish, he used a hand held belt sander
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I used a grinder on my wings lol
I think the belt sander pic you spoke of earlier, is you getting me confused with Spanish, he used a hand held belt sander
I knew some one did.... Either way get a belt sander...
Belt sander? As in air type 10mm wide belt type belt sander? How much elongation are you planning? I take it you dont need much elongation as you only want the clearance for the tyres, so your tool of choice doesn't need to be that heavy handed but any of the above will achieve the desired effect.
I have an air die grinder with dimond edged metal cutting elongational type tool on it that would mash up your strut tops no problem in it proper bo style!
But anythin will do as long as you can get it in the whole i can assist you when ever bud!
I'm saying belt sander as its easy to do it with. Have done it in the same way on a 1/4oval track nova..
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...e/turret01.jpg
or
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...e/turret02.jpg
However, I think thats a drastic over exageration to what I need lol
perhaps a little but for illustrative purposes its spot on do you need the extra castor pic 2 would give?
I take it you've already got your eccentric mounts positioned fully inwards and backwards?
Yep, certainly have, and upside down ;) lol :D
James - not really, so for ease, I might just go straight in...
What you upto at the weekend? lol
Have u still got the full lip or have you filed it out?
My turrets are currently 100% standard, and untouched. Not even got the plates on top...
Just thought, by doing the above, I'll have to ditch my strut brace, which isn't so much of a biggie :)
Loving the new look :cool: the things you come up with puts us lot to shame.
I can see the 5 door wings catching on soon
just try filing it out 1st (you'll probably then be able to run the bearing the right way up! lol
Another option...
Could you get some blocks made up, one to bolt inside the shock lower mount where the knuckle would to stop it closing up while... you use a block either side with 4 holes in to join the strut and knuckle? This way you wouldn't need to cut the shell or weld the shock, and its completely reversible.
Excuse the blatant image theft, but something like this:
http://www.xen0phobiak.f2s.com/noval...ockdiagram.jpg
Top down exaggeration:
http://www.xen0phobiak.f2s.com/noval...ckdiagram2.jpg
Going for the turret work, starting today :cool:
Looking good Olly! :thumb:
been watching some parts of this topic, just never posted before.
Wish i had the money to build a car like this :cool:
What are the driveshaft angles like running that low Olly?
this last few pages nearly killed my brain with all the thinking lol
Looks good mind. well done
OK, here I come to the rescue to make your life easier again lol.
Instead of having to drastically rework the turret to allow the strut top to move inwards, just grind a slice off the strut tops themselved to allow them to sit further in without fouling the inside of the turret.
As you said, you dont use them to adjust castor anymore so it wont matter if they're no longer round.
MY Dad has given the latest pics his seal of approval Ol...lol.
That looks fan-fapping-tastic dude! Starting to look like a lairy BTCC racer (ish)!
Hope you have no nasty speedbumps between you and Donington though....!
That is AWESOME olly, really love the look of it now :)
Olz my man,it has to be said that that pic of the nova is absolutely awesome mate!!! I take it back,it looks the dogs!!!!
Al - all speed bumps have been taken into consideration lol, luckily there are none in between Me & Donington, apart from those on the actual entry to the circuit itself.
Between Me and Cadwell though, is another story, if my plan comes together, it will be a case of setting up circuit side :thumb:
Cheers Keit', "have you still got water, on the murrr?"
Matt, thought you'd like it lol
OK, so the plan was for James (The Count) to come over tomorrow night for a bit of a session on the car with modifying the topmounts, and/or turrets if need be... but the plans changed, as I hadn't prepared for it enough.
Thats now happening possibly at the weekend.
But whilst the leg is off, and the topmount off for modification, I thought I might aswell up my spring rate, and reduce the length for the unsprung weight advantage which I wanted to do aswell.
So tomorrow I will order my new front springs, I'm going to change from 8" 313lb, to shorter, but higher poundage spring at 7" and 350lb, I'm also going to reduce the diameter from 2.5" to 2.25" again to aid more tyre/ spring clearence, so I'll take the spring seats on the coilovers to get turned down to 58.5mm to accept the narrower spring. Like I did on the rear adjusters.
Whilst everything is off, I'm also going to take my hubs to get the TRE hole drilled out to 12mm, ready for the rosejoints.
And so I'm not taking things apart over and over, I'll also cut down my steering arms to give me the full tracking ability that I've lost with the positive castor.
Makes sense doing it all in one go, as the leg would have to come off, and the top mount off the leg to do the original clearence mod anyway!
it can get a 'melee' with coilover springs, ull soon have as many springs as you do wheels n tyres..
I have to say i am a bit suprised youve stuck with the spax and not gone with a more track-based make/model of coilover, but i guess theres probably not a lot of difference..
Its hard to keep up with your thread so sorry if ive stated the obvious/ repeating.. Spax still going arent they?.. as a company..?
Until Spax fail me, or they're not upto what I class as acting how I want them to act, then I'll keep them.
The only "Spax" part of the coilover 'kit' I bought now are the shock absorbers themselves, all the springs have been upgraded along with topmounts.
I hear what you're saying, but I won't spend on things that don't need spending on, but then again, I'm not too sure what other coilover kits are around, and how they differ/ are better, than what I have.
I know GAZ are around, Leda are no longer I hear, and Avo I used to have and hated them which only leaves FK... which are very entry level...
Not stating the obvious pal :thumb: tis whats forums all about :)
top work olly
ill probably pop over on the weekend olz,once ive done a bit of spraying!
Not sure if anyone else has said this but If you are going to extend the tabs on the shock go easy because the heat build up might cause it to explode lol
You've been busy as a beaver! Looks superb Olly, I hope it all pays off where it counts, On track! :D
Peester almost cost me a lot of money today lol i called Leda for some prices on their coilovers, and for two front legs alone, shocks only, no springs, no topmounts were £350 per leg, plus carriage, plus VAT totalling £840 to my door lol :eek:
Needless to say I didn't go ahead, kinda dawned on me that this car is simply "only a track car" it's never going to be competing, but we all know its easy to get carried away, or at least, our minds do!
Hmmm, in the cheaper world of Olly, I ordered my 7", 2.25" ID, 350lb front springs today which came to £49 which was nice... also arranged with machine shop to drill my TRE hole out to 12mm, and get my spring platforms turned down to 58mm tomorrow :thumb:
So we'll be 'at it' at the weekend :)
There was some 2nd hand Leda's on mig tother week
Not that im trying to tempt you lol
Spax seem to be fine round the track anyways!
Well the only reason I called them is because they're only custom build, so I could choose the length of my shock body, because I'm running my car so low. So buying a second hand set, would be defeating the object of their appeal to me, unless someone has done the same (ie Rick Draper) and had particulary short bodies.
That said, after talking to both Leda & Gaz today, they brought to my attention that the amount of my shocker travel remaining isn't so much of an issue for me due to my spring poundage.
I mean, say I ran my car high, and had 8" of shock travel left, or I had it low which meant only 3" shock travel was left - it bares no relation to how the car will handle due to the fact I havr 450lb rear springs and it'd never droop that low anyway.
Same goes for the front really, now I'm upping the rate again everso slightly...
So my mind is at rest again, that these will do me fine for now :)
Something else I found intersting whilst on the phone to Leda especially, is the fact they no longer deal in gas filled shock absorbers, oil only.
Second to that, they no longer sell the double adjustability ones with the remote canister for rebound rates as they said "it was just a gimmick" and didn't do too much anyway.
And just because I asked, they also no longer produce the three-way adjustable shocks.
sounds like you have been a busy boy then , plans sound good though :thumb:
where do you buy your springs olz? I may need to get some better ones for my rears as they're currently standard.
Faulkners, whom are the people that supply DT, RD & PLR :thumb:
Both Andy & Dave are considerably helpful chaps :)
http://www.dfaulknersprings.co.uk/
Added to favourites, cheers.
Ow er 200 pages of trackcarness love it..... bring on the weekend!
balls, failed to see the 200 pageness.
you got plans tomorrow night babe?
I have a text waiting to send to you on that exact subject once i know what i'm doing...i had no plans and the missus was out so i thought i would see what my mates were up to, then you said you had no plans and Shell was out so would be getting on with the car so now i would like to help you but my mates haven't replyed so i don't know what i'm doing! RUBBISH!