I'd love to report that there has been lots of progress on the chassis. However, when your success rate of cutting tubes with awkward and opposed angles is about 1-in-5, it does tend to slow you down. At least I'm not making my own chassis from scratch!
Some items have arrived, notably the plates to mount the main roll hoop, a pillow block bearing that isn't suitable for the intended job and a set of four poly bushes, crush tubes and housings.
The vast majority of the suspension joints on the car are to be rose jointed; the front can be seen here. In fact the only exceptions are the axle-end joints on the trailing arms. My thinking is that the 5-link live axle set-up will probably benefit from an element of 'compliance' (read 'squish.') As such the bushes I've gone for are at the lower-middle end of the hardness scale at Shore A = 80. My experience is that anything harder than this defeats the object and doesn't really do the job that I want it to do. My experience is also that these, whatever the hardness rating, need to be very carefully matched to the accepting clevis so I think I'll be calling on Dave at Track Developments and his lathe to get them right.
Anyway, I'm sure that this will be my last post this side of Christmas so may I take this opportunity to wish you Nadolig Llawen
TC
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If you are basing your thesis in part on my ramblings then I fear for your success - or judging by the supplied link, for the poor soul charging you with writing a dissertation.
I like my spam with chips!
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