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Yeah radius arms a bit of a disaster especially for camber stiffness.

I also think toe stiffness can be a problem but that's more to do with the attachment stiffness of the beam / heelboard combined.

When my beam is finally done I am going to test the KAD arms vs Standard, I couldn't get any info for KAD or SC as far as stiffness values go, so have to measure it myself.

Is your beam O.D. 38.0mm and 2.0mm wall?


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we went for 50mm 2mm wall to keep it stiff.

Your right about the heal board, it's not that stiff at all, hopefully the spine running the length of the car should help stiffen it up a littlle

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If your not already, I'd definitely try and have the area where the rose joints attach to the beam connected back through the heelboard to the tube you have inside the car the other side of the heelboard.

I think in many ways the rear suspension stiffness (In terms of how much parts flex not coil spring rate) is more important than the front as far as feeling confident in cornering / on turn in.

Edited by Aubrey_Boy on 4th Aug, 2015.

Looks fantastic. It's great to see this at evolve.

In the 13's at last!.. Just

the boxes which the cage sits on connect around where the std holes are in the heel board, it's not perfect, but hopefully should be ok

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Very impressive ideas and fabrication... i think the air jacks are awesome! Does it have a air tank like air ride would have??

No, you just have air bottles in the pit lane and plug the air bottles into the car when it comes in.

Hi Jim did you do the machining?

Terry

Yes, I did machining of all ally bits and steel bushes. Endaf did 99% of the fabrication

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Considering it desimated everything on track before, This is going to be mental when done. Interesting new developments.

Awesome Jim. Cant wait to see it race agin. Will it still be yellow?

I seriously doubt it!

Puts the tiny by comparison bits I've done to mine look shit

Good stuff as ever from the land of sheep....

Looks great! So I guess the next mod will be a wider trailer to fit it on.

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

it's still going gay yellow, just got a new race shuttle trailer, it's tight but should fit. Can't wait to try out my new fusion fabrications manifold

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Love all this one-off machining you're doing! Do you have all your own CNC gear I take it? What's happening with the bottom arms & tie bars?

Edited by Mowen123 on 9th Aug, 2015.

Looks awesome Jimbo !!

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

yea I'm sure I could to that, does he have a drawing of what he wants? Can be rough hand sketch or cad model

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Small update, just had these pics from the bodyshop, I'll be going to collect it tomorrow.

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Looking very nice! I'm considering doing the interior/exterior a split colour scheme like this. I was erring towards all one colour but now I've got re-think after seeing this, damn it.

Small update, doing a quick dry build before getting the fabricated parts coated.

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on it's wheels, sitting high at the moment, should be 20mm lower than this

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That is awesome

My new favorite car!

Interesting to see what you've done with the arms. I'm working on something similar but I'm trying to retain the doughnuts. My original idea for the rear was the same as yours actually, move the stub axle higher, but i've gone a different route now. Yours looks wicked!