While I'm extremely busy with my new business, I still managed to do a couple things lately on the locost.
First, huge thanks to my buddy Rory who's knowledge and skills are proving indespensible time and time again, taking care of some heavy brain lifting as well as fabrication.
I'd also like to thank my buddy Steven for handling the task of rebuilding and revalving my shocks, suggesting damping curves and giving insights of shock tuning - you are THE man!
And now to the update itself -
The shocks are rebuilt and custom revalved to work properly with my suspension.
They've been dyno'd and calibrated and we're all hoping that they'll perform well given that much of the suspension tuning at this point is educated guesses - there's no car yet
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The front rockers are the next big task (suspension-wise) and they are currently in final stages of design.
Yesterday was a good day of fabrication, aligning the diff in the chassis one more time and fabricating the mounts to hold it there.
One of my main concerns when designing the mounts was to keep it serviceable, too many build logs show the diff mounted in place but good luck removing it from the car if you need to do anything with it.
This one will be very easy - pull the axles out, pop the rear cover at the tunnel, pull the two front bolts from the top, undo the three rear mount bolts and proceed to removing the diff with the rear mount. Done.
The design of the rear mount also properly triangulates the rear suspension box from the back.
Note that the diff is mounted solid - aluminum bushings in the front and a solid mount from the back.
Again, this is something that I see in some build logs that builders sometimes do - solid mounting the rear and use bushings in the front.
If you're reading this and thought about doing it the way I just described, don't do it unless you have a need to break the rear cover.
Not too many pics this time, I'll take more soon.
Moti