As Lee said, the coilovers have pillow ball style mounts so camber/castor is adjusted from there. I will also have a lot of adjustment in the suspension arms.Originally Posted by Benn
As Lee said, the coilovers have pillow ball style mounts so camber/castor is adjusted from there. I will also have a lot of adjustment in the suspension arms.
i never said it would be easy! personally i think you should drill or cut a hole through the top of the jam at an angle (it won’t affect the strength with all that tube in there) so you wouldn’t need an S bend, just a curve, as like you say you are compromising currently, and making it harder to make it strong without adding weight, it might be hard, but you only need to build it once!
end of the day though, its your project
I appreciate the input, its the main reason I post it on forums, I want people to chirp up as its easy to miss things when you're close to it. As I said, I did have a look at that option but it wasn't viable in my mind. I will revisit it tho and take a few more detailed pics to give a better idea of what I'm working with.
Si,
Could you not do it like this? Bring a bar from the std chassis leg but bent tight to the top mount, which then joins the new chassis (red bar) use one of your bars you have now to join the gap at the front of the mount (red bar again)
Then thin bar off that (blue) for the wing and headlight (orange) to hang off...
This way you only need to remove two bars but reuse one and bend one new... Looks alot like what drift and race car chassis kinda use..
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Funnily enough Benn that's the way I thought I'd do it after seeing the pictures. Extend the red line upwards (in the pic, backwards in person) to meet the A pillar and it's all tied in to the cage too.
I thought With the bar welded in/tagged in to the std chassis leg. You get lots of strength to the front cage/frame plus you can keep things kinda flowing in the same way (shock mounts and bits)
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To me in those last two pictures it looks like there is space above the turret to run from the a piller tube forward above the turret and then curving down and round to meet the chassis leg. That would mean no s shaped bar and a much simpler and stronger set up.
Did try to draw a picture on my phone but failed
Kinda like this,
Then you can remove a bar, bend a bar and a bit of flat shaped plate. (Which you could add a wheel tube too)
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No Benn not like that. Ive attempted to draw a picture. Just waiting for 15% battery to take a pic. Im also afraid its not alot like you design simps. Its how I think I would do it
That's just how i thought of doing it. Or having a tube at the front instead of the plate.
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