Looks killer, I want to get a set of Tosco 4 spokes for mine.

 

Mech eng mate, only way to roll.

same pedal box I got for the 20 .. Love the work looks good

 

 

 

 

Well we had a good day. Sorted out suspension woe's out! I'm sure Luke's going to write up something on what we did :P haha so here's a few pictures of what we got upto this weekend.

 

 

Strut bender

 

 

Luke thinking his cool....

 

 

After a few months of having 2 passanger side 86 struts... i realised the day before driving 3 hours to Lukes... that I had 2 of the same struts... so drove all around sydney to picked up a few sets of 86 struts, ended up cutting down a set of struts at lukes to bend this morning.... New sleevekit and a shitload of parts are on their way for my front end!! Car will finally be complete in the front end department!

 

 

just removing the dodgy sleeve kit.

So yeah we had some good results with the strut bender yesterday. I was a little sceptical when Jordain first arrived with it but it worked quite well. As you can see from the following photo it is quite simple. I was using the tool in this configuration because I had added too much camber and needed to reduce the angle.

 

 

To add camber the hydraulic ram is pointed away from the car and a chain wrapped around the strut and the head to bend the hub inwards. I didn't get a good photo of this, sorry.

 

The only issue I now have is how much King Pin Inclination it has added to the geometry. This is shown in the following photo. As you can see the level shows the straight line through the strut tube to the ground and how far the king pin is inclined over.

 

 

What we did was measure the backspace from the where the rim bolts up to the rear edge of the rim and then when we bent the hub towards the strut we just allowed enough clearance for the coilover kit and tyre bulge. This gave us enough camber but maintained clearance for everything.

Next time I do this (if I need to again??) I would only bend the stub enough to gain the correct angle and also try and maintain the original king pin angle.

 

Definately a step in the right direction though.

 

Question can anybody provide some feedback on the new king pin inclination??? Will it destroy the ball joint real quick like this??? Is there any way I can fix it without straightening the strut???

I see no issue with the ball joint providing it doesnt bind.

 

Unbolt the strut and check how much movement it has left in it and all will be fine.

 

If they aren't already new it might pay to replace them now that they are working in a different area to before.

Hmmm interesting. I don't think they bind but will check today to make sure.

 

Looks so nice with these rims man. Serious rolla porn up in here. Keep at it! :y:

 

now I'm waiting on a massive order from AJPS and t3! I deffiantly need to run a chin lip and maybe an rx7 oil cooler out the front and some ta22 guard mirrors.... get the whole car a tad lower but that looses my ground clearance and i'm already at 85mm :( Beams sump = fail. Might have to dry sump it :P

The problem u have with bending ur strut is that u have messed with ur strut axis point, if u read this link it explains it abit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrub_radius What u need to do is get some string and figure out how far down ur lines meet up ???

 

Hope u can sort it out mate :happy:

 

Keep up the good work looks so good mate

 

 

 

 

See ya

 

 

Jimi

Jimi91 : Yeah we aren't totally sure how all this front end is going to work out until we actually drive it on the road. Its pretty much unexplored territory in the KE1* so we will wait and see I suppose.

 

just played around with suspension today....

 

 

consists of:

 

Cusco tops, cusco top perch, 8kg springs, wholesale bottom perch machined to fit springs, sleeve kit cut in half... 86 super short struts, 86 hubs, fc calipers, civic discs

 

undecided on shocks atm.... running TRD blues.

 

anyway sussssspension should be sorted in the next couple days. :cool:

Do like the meshies. Such a great looking car.

 

 

need to skim a few mm from the caliper to make the wheels clear....... sleeve kits at the right spot so i can weld it on better tonight....

 

Now to finish some assignments for uni :bash:

Fark that's a short sleeve kit