Replacement Beam Axle Help
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Hi guys,

I've just ordered a new shell from heritage, and I am stripping my old shell at the moment.

If I am going to buy one of the replacement beam axles, what will I need from my original rear subframe?

Also, ive never spoken to the owner of a mini with this new axle. Does anyone have a views on them? Good or bad.

Ben.

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is that a minispares extruded beam or a tubular one?

It could be either one mate, Ive literallly seem them about and decided I want one, but need to strip my old sub down and im not sure what to keep.

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you keep everything but the subframe, its self explainitory once you have both in front of you.

ive already pointed you to a recent thread about this on minifinty, if its for a road car, then tbh i personally cant recomend the conversion, good luck though.

jo

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

"did you know you can toast potato waffles?"

Yeah it would be easier with both infront of me.

But unfortunatly I dont have that choice, Im selling my old shell to make room for my new one, so need to get rid of what i wont need.

Thanks for the help anyway, I think im going to keep the rear sub.

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i can't really give a good indication whether to go for a beam or not,

however, i did fit one for someone, it was the tubular type and there was a part of it that runs right where the exhaust needs to be, so i'd suggest the extruded one if you do chose this route.

if it is a beam axel with independant radius arms ie the beam runs along the heal board of the floor and the radius arms attach then go for it. if it is a solid beam axel whereby both wheels lift off the ground if one is raised then this is not best suited to road use and will make the car a bit tail happy in the wet. this style of beam is best suited to offroad autocross or rally cross setups. the first one is idealas it cuts out alot of weight. especialy if you go for the alloy radius arms too.

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The only experience I have with them is the tubular/square box steel one - huddersfield m/spares type of thing. I'm running one on my car. Its not a bad bit of kit but needs "adjustment" as mentioned earlier to get the exhaust up into the centre tunnel. The other area which needs looking at with these ones is the brackets which hold the swing arms in place - they are only L shape in section and would be hopeless in corenering at resisting bending/deflection unless you strengthen them by putting a little gusset of steel across the ends of them to triangulate the load path - easy to do with 3mm plate and a mig. Other than this its been good as gold. Everything else is pretty much bolt in and the handbrake cables all carry over from old system, same routing etc.

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