Setting the rear strut tops up will be rather challenging, ive ran out of tube once again and my new order wont be in till after D1NZ so this will have to wait a couple of weeks.
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Setting the rear strut tops up will be rather challenging, ive ran out of tube once again and my new order wont be in till after D1NZ so this will have to wait a couple of weeks.
KBanksAZ
You’re making awesome progress though, top notch work!! Does AU get most of it’s steel from JP? I hope things are starting to look more positive over there.
Nigel
Im not sure where the steel comes from, would be locally made i would think.
Dale campaign
looking awesome dude, is this your ute or a customers
Nigel
Thanks Dale, its my ute 🙂
Umai Kakudo
You know what would be sweet?
A F1 Style rocker arm setup. That’s what!
It would help packaging, you wouldn’t have to add a bunch of tubes to ruin the lines of you nice current setup, and you could use Koni or Bilstein coilover dampers that are more easily re-valved.
Something like this . . . http://www.maierracing.com/ExtremeRearSupspensionPackage.html
Search the lowcost forums for some great inspiration on nice inboard push rod suspension designs that use steel for the rockers instead of pricey CNC alloy.
It would be a snowball design but a very cool one.
Jase 86
Push rod would be WAY to much farting about. Nigels already dropped big dollars for top notch coilovers that are easily rebuildable and valved.. Plus their proven to work.. Go push rod and your almost starting from scratch in terms of shock valving.
I’m sure Nigle wil be able to tie them into the cage nicely. 🙂
No doubt at all that he’ll make it all work and be spectacular too.
Barge
Yeah, there were a few mustangs at SEMA last year that had that setup… looked trick….
Paulie
nigel, will you be using airjacks for the rear?
definitely would ad another functioning, wow factor to an already impressive build.
Nigel
I really want to Paulie but the price eludes me, find them for around $500 a pair and id be all over it.
Paulie
im with jase 86 and lucas, DIY.
a ghetto solution might be to retro fit some shock absorbers that have a thick pushrod. motor bike front forks maybe?
also, i know ksport do some, but that depends on your views of ksport as to how useful that information really is.
imho, you are going to all this effort to build a drift car to suit your requirements, why not make rear tyre that little bit easy…and cooler lol
Jase 86
I would have though you’d be more than capable of making your own Nigel.. they really are quite simple…Just a tube in a tube with some seals and a spring to return them once the presure has been released…
lucas
Just make them..Old man and i did for his r33 race car. Just need a lathe. As Jase mentioned quited simple in design. Something you can definitly do with your skills.
Joel
Seeing those shocks sitting above the diff running horizontally in line with the chassis would be awesome. If you kept the cantilever pivot point dead centre would it change the required spring rate and valving that much? How much unsprung weight would it also save?