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
Suspension lowering, angles and set-up
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Re: Suspension lowering, angles and set-up
Looks good, why did you flip the lower arms though?
Thomas..............
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Re: Suspension lowering, angles and set-up
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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Oh I see... fair enough
Wouldn't it have been easier to shorten the drop links?
Thomas.........
Wouldn't it have been easier to shorten the drop links?
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Looks great dude! Tom, I can't see how shortening droplinks would have any effect here?
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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!
Thomas......
Its been a long day at work that's my excuse... and I've still got 2 hours left!
Thomas......