Beam Axles
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Are these Beam axles which uses std mini radius but with a pair of coilover shock any good? Seen afew people using them, i currenty have the standard subframe and high lows with camber adjustment brackets and fully adjustable shocks worth changing over to coil overs?? whats the feeling on them?

Thanks
Alex.

What you have will be very good. There will be no noticeable difference in handling but you will lose around 25kg of weight.
If its weight saving you want, do it, if not, dont bother.
I have an alloy beam that I made myself with KAD alloy trailing arms and it is very good.

Paul

I seriously doubt it!

can you keep the handling good?
iv heard that rear beams make the handling a bit strange. or is it down to prefernces?

cheers
josh

My build thread..

http://www.turbominis.co.uk/forums/index.php?p=vt&tid=542985

I seriously doubt it!

I agree with Paul, its all about how you set them up! Ive got em on both my minis and they can be very versatile and supper easy to adjust, spring weights for your application are important.

On my clubby you can adjust the height really easily by having some large threaded pipe welded in to strengthen the rear shock locations, just means more adjustment to get the set up I want

I think I have a pic ill post it if you want to have a look

yer a pic of that would be good mate.

im now tempted to get one fitted to my project!!

does anyone know the wieght of a minispares beam? as i think thats the one to go for.

cheers
josh

My build thread..

http://www.turbominis.co.uk/forums/index.php?p=vt&tid=542985

Here you are Josh, as requested



And heres one a bit further out so you get a bit of scale!



The blue socket sits into the top pipe and allows it to be adgusted using the power bar

regards, Mark

nice idea mark, never seen that before

Team Racing

josh_tacon - here's a pic of my alloy minispares rear beam.



weight = 10-12kgs at a guess.

They are a right bastard to fit mind you. i had to mod it quite a bit to make it fit, Also,you have to use a mk1 handbrake cable set-up or like i've done have cable made up.

They don't tell you that when you buy one. If i was to do it again i would make own.

Si

I drill holes in everything..!

Looks ff-ing awesome though

Edited by paul wiginton on 11th Nov, 2007.

I seriously doubt it!

Paul- How did they manage that? I have a late type handbrake set-up on mine.

And when fitting the rear handbrake to the single front cable which goes to the handbrake. There was no way it would reach.

I used KAD quadrants on both the radius arms and on the beam itself,(see pic ) And there was just not enough cable for the two to meet.

I think I've got some pics which I will post. May be you can see were it all went wrong?

Si

I drill holes in everything..!

Si, to be honest I dont know, I havent looked, but I will find out and let you know.

Paul

I seriously doubt it!

Thanks Paul any info would be good.

Si

I drill holes in everything..!

Hi,
The quadrant on the radius arm is bigger than the cable guide on the subframe.
Maybe you could remove the guide off the subframe and bolt it to the beam?
Cheers,
Gavin :)

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Bat - i actually thought about making up some reduced size quadrants to gain the length back. Might give it a go.

I drill holes in everything..!

could you not make up a threaded extender to screw onto the cable?