Suspension lowering, angles and set-up

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Re: Suspension lowering, angles and set-up

Post by Frits » 11 Sep 2013 06:05 pm

Well, finally got al parts and setup finished.

Ground clearance measured at crossmember: 9cm
Travel left: 9cm (well this means I'm able to adjust the spring seats and be literly on the ground) probably going to use shims on damper to set bump-zero heigt.
Cut struts: 6cm
Cut knuckels and rewelded underneath original ackerman arm (take care on setting ackerman settings. I went for zero ackerman, looks like its reversed ackerman in the end, but everything is possible.
Doing the knuckle lowering, means you need to move your swingarm point at the crossmember upwards. After measuring a lot, I ended up 2,8 cm higher. I also moved about 2 mm outwards for extra camber.
Then, you need to swap the swingarm upside down, assemble the whole thing upside down and take car as the strut rod is a-symmetric. And cut the swingarm to make space for the track ball bearing. (If you are not going for extra lock, this might not be necessary)

So I got my lowered, travel left, max lock and repositioned rollcenter point- equipped car :D

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Re: Suspension lowering, angles and set-up

Post by Attack2001 » 11 Sep 2013 07:33 pm

Looks good, why did you flip the lower arms though?

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Re: Suspension lowering, angles and set-up

Post by Frits » 11 Sep 2013 09:31 pm

The lower arm got higher. Rebolting it back to the tie bar would put alot of stress to it because the tie bar did'nt move upwards. By flipping the lower arm, wil allow the tie bar to be mounted lower.

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Re: Suspension lowering, angles and set-up

Post by Attack2001 » 12 Sep 2013 06:59 pm

Oh I see... fair enough :)

Wouldn't it have been easier to shorten the drop links?

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Re: Suspension lowering, angles and set-up

Post by Speedy88 » 12 Sep 2013 07:57 pm

Looks great dude! Tom, I can't see how shortening droplinks would have any effect here?
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Re: Suspension lowering, angles and set-up

Post by Attack2001 » 12 Sep 2013 08:10 pm

Ah that's my bad, im confusing tie bar and arb... he's on about the compression struts xD it all makes sense now haha

Its been a long day at work that's my excuse... and I've still got 2 hours left!

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