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Awesome ! I really like the back arms. Food for thought !

"So wat we gonna do tonight Brain?"
"Same thing we do evernight Pinky!"
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hmmm, its probably fine, but have you thoroughly thought through mounting the rear arms directly onto the shell?

are the mounting points tied to the cage at all?

"Turbo's make torque, and torque makes fun"

"did you know you can toast potato waffles?"

Phat arches Andre!!

are you going to add any shear plates to your rear arms? - there isn't much "Z" (X,Y being lateral and longditudinal) material to resist bending - if you can see what I mean - pure lateral force I think they'll be ok, introduce reaction force from the tyre contact patch to the mounting points and the reaction force by the damper assy - introduces a lot of twist to the rear arms - one of the reasons the SC arms are 2 inches thick in 7075 ally! It would be easy enough to make a rigid jig to bolt them to with a reaction point replicating the centre of the tyre contact patch as a fulcrum, then dti the arm and add weight to the damper pivot to see how it deflects?

JK

If Carling made Mini engines
it would probably be like this one!

Thats coming on nicely! :)

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1/4mile in 13.2sec @ 111 terminal on 15psi

BTW here is a graph that shows the camber and toe vs suspension travel.

travel in mm as X axis, and toe in in mm and camber in degrees at the Y axis.

Wow, so you went for semi-trailing after all.

Great stuff. You don't know how it will work until you try it.

Bugger all toe change for a useful bit of camber change.

Saul Bellow - "A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."
Stephen Hawking - "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."

yes I did. forgot to state that the toe change in mm there is at the edge of a 10" rim, but still the toe change is not much compared to the camber change.

As a response to John's concern, and his recommendations on what to do the arms are now like this:



A whole lot stronger :)

They weight 2503 gram, which I think is decent bearing in mind they are made to work without a beam or subbie

Edited by miniminor63 on 2nd Dec, 2009.

nice work

"Turbo's make torque, and torque makes fun"

"did you know you can toast potato waffles?"

more crappy pics (sorry), but both sides done.

Are those oversills?

lol, no they are not

Stunning So Far..

Keep up the good work.

have work hard on this during easter:


















Still not finished with the paint, but close. it will be on its own wheels in two weeks, and back home in my garage :)

That is going to be a hell of a weapon, Looks awesome.

tasty

"Turbo's make torque, and torque makes fun"

"did you know you can toast potato waffles?"

be interesting to see what the final weight is :) looking good :)

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Excellent!

Nice work, you have been busy!

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1/4mile in 13.2sec @ 111 terminal on 15psi

Where did you get your momo steering wheel mate?

Very nice indeed, looks exactly the same colour as mine used to be.

thanks guys!

The steering wheel I got at a beetle get together in Sweden many years ago!

Paint looks good! was it the same as mine?.

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