OK, so airbox is underway, and now compelte and sprayed up... decided to make another vid as it's a damn site, easier, and quick than downloading, resizing, renaming, hosting/ uploading, posting photos all the time. lol
To see finished airbox vid, and new track lol click HERE(or right click, save as)
So thats that sorted, now I turn my attention to my rear suspension setup.
Never wanted to go for the rear coilover route, as I know it could cause clearence issues on certain tyres/ slicks, tyre walls etc without turretting the rears, and then arch scrubbage if you add wheel spacers. So I remain with my initial plan of keeping standalone spring and shock setup, but it's completely custom, with the same outcome as rear coilovers, but without the possible problems. As my shocks are damper adjustable, and now my springs are height adjustable, so it can now be corner weighted.
In short, I have a pair of rear height adjustable platforms that sit on the rear beam, that came with an old FK coilover kit that I never used, problem being is the OD of the platform, were 64mm / 2.5", which causes problems with trying to get a good variety of front coilover springs, to fit the rear. As the most common ID of a coilover spring is 2.25" or 58.5mm to be exact.
So I took my rear height adjustable platforms to the fabricators to have the OD machined down from 64mm/ 2.5", down to 58mm/ 2.25" so I could have a better choice of rear spring, size, length and poundage.
Today I ordered my 2.25" ID, 4" open length, 450lb rear springs. 4" i hear you say, thats rather short lol well, my current 150lb rear springs uncompressed are 6", compressed are 5"... I dabbled with getting 5" rear springs, but then with the height of my adjuster at its minimum, thats 18mm (0.7") which'll leave me no room to drop the car, should it need to go further down at the back, and the maximum height the adjusters go to are 50mm (1.9") so with 4" spring, I can set my height adjuster pretty much central so there is plenty of adjustability either direction when it comes to cornerweighting it.
So with this, I will have complete flexibility height wise, and damper adjustability, along with the ability to now cornerweight the car, along with absolutely no clearence issues with running wider tyres without spacers on the rear.
And with the end of this story, you get another video lol HERE(or right click, save as)
Enjoy! :)
