Spax coilover Mounting kits
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On 24th of Nov, 2007 at 09:21pm fastcarl said:

On 24th of Nov, 2007 at 12:10am stevieturbo said:
Milamber...

do you have any Aluminium stuff ?

I could do with a short piece of Alu bar, say 20mm diam, with a 6-8mm hole drilled through it ?
Basically a heavy tube ( needs to be for my welding )

how long???

9.85 @ 145mph
202mph standing mile
speed didn't kill me, but taxation probably will

i'm sure i can come up with something,


carl

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About a week ago Jason sent me some prototype brackets to have a play with, and after a week of sitting on my arse I had a go at fitting them.



Top bracket fits a treat :)



but as I can't leave things alone I decided to modify it a bit




got to say the top plate really stiffens them up.

The bottom mounts are giving me grief (not Jason's fault he made them to my drawings) as the shocks foul slightly on the lower wing at full travel :(



I think Steveo's design is the way to go, just need to have a chat with Fat Stig about suspension geometry.



Now all I need to do is redesign the bottom brackets (sorry Jason) and find somewhere with a laser cutter that can cut out the top brackets.

Edited by Rob H on 23rd Dec, 2007.

Good work Rob. :)

rob, fit the wheel you nitend to use, then move the bott damper mount outwards untill it is just clear of the wheel tyre combo, and then mock up some brackets in card , , i think you will find they can go out even further than you are showing here,

carl

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I offered up the wheel I intend to use as shown below, however as you can see I haven't got any tyres for them yet (and to make matters worse all my Mini wheels with tyres fitted are back at my house, so the best I could find in the workshop was a Midget wheel, don't laugh) anyway I think I've come up with a lower bracket that stops the shocks fouling on the body and and the same time shouldn't foul on the wheel:





Jason, if you want I can send you my home made brackets to measure up etc.

Edited by Rob H on 25th Dec, 2007.

looks ok

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if your making any of those bottom mounts i'd be interested in a set maybe the full kit if your getting a few sets knocked up?

thanks lee

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Jason, do you still have the CAD drawings?

Your lucky I saved all homework from previous employer Rob!
I'll email to you.

couldnt find this to save my life thanks jay and james. with the coilovers lowerd to bugery they foul on the subby, would it be dangerous to modify the subby to be able to use the std mounts for the shocks? also how low was the car before it started to foul?

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perhaps change the angle of the coilover some how? Never seen a coilover setup on a mini to be honest...would be interesting to get a few pics up.

So, who can make a kit for my ADO16?

I'm going to dig this up and get this going again.

all the important pictures are gone so I'm going to get the CArDboard out tommorrow and have a go.

I might have the pictures somewhere, bear with me I'll see what I can do. If not I've definitely got the 2mm thick prototype in my workshop.

Edited by Rob H on 26th Oct, 2009.

yeah I've got the other set of prototype brackets in my shed.

I've got a set of spax aswell.

I'm thinking bottom in 4mm steel to bring the damper right out close to the wheel as carl suggests.

and top mounts from 4mm ally simular to the spax ones.

Still got the pictures somewhere, found the AutoCad file which I can save as a PDF. :)

rob kindly emailed me them last night.

I'm going to have a go at designing some Saturday. I will post pics.

hands are tied now I'm in the office..but any ally or laser cutting, I may be able to swing something.