supra2 Posted December 26, 2013 Report Share Posted December 26, 2013 Well done Justin. Its looking great. I think I may have started a trend here. You seem to have put a lot more work into your IRS than I did. The rear wheel centre looks to be a little forward in the arch or is just the photo angle? What type of rear suspension will you be fitting? Springs and shocks. Very impressive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rian Posted December 27, 2013 Report Share Posted December 27, 2013 This is so sick! Awesome job on the rear end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tough_little_ke20 Posted December 28, 2013 Author Report Share Posted December 28, 2013 Cheers, must be the angle, it measure to be spot on in the centre (to my surprise haha). I don't think I'm putting much more effort in I'm just only doing a little bit at a time as I don't have a goal for when its done, that way I won't rush anything. I'm hopefully getting brembos off a lancer gsr from a bloke in the car club, the gsr is 4x114.3 so they'll slip straight on with no need to drill blanks, so I thought I may aswell grab the front stuts too, then the brakes are already mounted and I will have KPI adjustment then I'll run gsr coil overs all round. I just wish it was done, not because I'm over it but I'm so exited, can't wait to see your 30 going too, it's looking great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tough_little_ke20 Posted January 4, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2014 Got me some suspension for the rolla, Mitsubishi gsr lancer front and rear struts with some big ass brembos, I predict that it should stop quite well, stuts are just temporary, when the car is closer to being finished ill get coil overs, forgot to grab the front hubs but ill get them in the next couple of days Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tough_little_ke20 Posted January 6, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2014 Bit of dissapointment today when I got the hubs, I bolted them to the struts and sat them up in the towers to find that not only are they far to long, the steering nuckle is also at the top of the hub rather than the bottom level with the ball joint so it's time to scrap that idea 😔. Luckily a mate of mine had his fc rx7 at my dads work getting an alignment so I had a look at it. The front hubs seem as though they will fit while paired up with coilovers, also giving me the advantage of the famous RX7 4 pot brakes, and the rear coil overs will work with my rear end and may even slip straight on to the original shocker mount with out any modification, and of coarse I would use the rx7 rear brakes aswell, I'm not a big fan of mixing front and rear brakes, I figure they were designed to work as a team to stop a car, don't get 4 players from 2 different teams and expect them to work well together. My only issue after all this is putting the rx7's 5x114.3 stud pattern onto my rear ends 4x114.3 hubs, couple of adapter plates and bobs your uncle. This will widen the rear wheel track by 50-60mm but different offset wheel will be what it all comes down to, I also should have a good selection of wheels with that stud pattern also. Now, I now have front struts with hubs and brakes plus rear struts and brakes from a 1994 Mitsubishi Lancer GSR (the AWD turbo lancer before the Evo's came out), if anyone is interested or knows someone who may be interested, I'll sell it all for $150. Nothing leaks its all in good working order, seems a waste to just throw it all out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tough_little_ke20 Posted January 6, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2014 Also if anyone can help me out with RX7 parts that would be greatly appreciated. I'm after front hubs with brakes and rear brakes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tough_little_ke20 Posted January 14, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2014 I feel like I've been saying for a very long time that I'm about to make the rear towers and get the car back on the ground, well I'm finally doing it, I have no goal date to have the car finished so if I can't be bothered working on it I don't that also means I can take the time to do thing how I want and not rush it. So today of all days when I finished work it was 47° so I thought sure ill go work on the rolla, now I have one side chopped out roughly so I could put the strut in and measure up for the towers, I'll fold up the towers in the next couple of days hopefully, then ill weld them up and fabricate then into the car. Hopefully after that I can turn the car upside down for the last time and clean up all the bits of metal that don't need to be there, fill in all the holes, seem weld whats left and weld in some mounts for a tail shaft loop then paint the underside and the rear end, reassemble and pack away the rotisery Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supra2 Posted January 15, 2014 Report Share Posted January 15, 2014 Hi Justin. Something to check which Ive overlooked and may cause a clearance issue depending on offset. As you know the irs has a lot of camber gain and they only have a shock as standard. Iam findind the tyre may foul the coil spring on full bump as the camber changes but wont know untill I get some weight on it. Ive allready moved the lower mount inboard but it still might not be enough. Just a heads up before you weld in your new towers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tough_little_ke20 Posted January 15, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 15, 2014 Cheers Craig, I never thought about the camber bringing the tyre closer to the strut, but mine is going on the original mount which has some angle on it that allows the strut to stay on the same angle while the arm gains camber, this means the strut goes through the side of the wheel arch and not out the top, so the tyre would hit the inner guard before the strut (hopefully) plus ill be machining up a bolt on spacer to change the stud pattern from 4 to 5 which will sit the wheel out another 20-25mm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tough_little_ke20 Posted February 3, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 3, 2014 The extreme heat over the last few weeks (mid 40's) took away my motivation but I decided to get back into it on Sunday. So I made up both rear towers in the form of pressed sheet metal box section, and test fitted one side, trimmed and tacked it in place, today I made the tops for the towers, and if the weather is alright tomorrow after work I'll work out the tower height, pull the tower out trim the tower to length and weld the cap on the put the tower back in. Hopefully all goes to plan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tough_little_ke20 Posted February 4, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 4, 2014 I'm very happy with tonight's progress, got both towers tacked in place with the tops welded on and the wheels now hang all by themselves, now I need to fully weld the towers in, make a few gussets, sheet off the holes and finish seam welding then the rear is done ???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tough_little_ke20 Posted February 5, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2014 Rear is out hopefully for the last time, time to weld everything and fill the holes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tough_little_ke20 Posted February 20, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2014 Just about finished welding the towers in, will finish them off tonight then onto the floor work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tough_little_ke20 Posted February 23, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2014 Got the first sheet welded in today so that means the work on the rear end is done, just the tidy up jobs to do, gettin close now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tough_little_ke20 Posted February 24, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 24, 2014 Rear end is off to the sandblaster tomorrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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