Tubeframe 914, Started work on my rear custom uprights |
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Tubeframe 914, Started work on my rear custom uprights |
Borderline |
Oct 2 2010, 02:07 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 720 Joined: 8-February 05 From: San Juan Bautista, CA Member No.: 3,577 Region Association: Northern California |
WOW! You have more effort into your fixturing than most have their 914s. Very impressive! You do fantastic work.
I have a few questions: How are you locating your fixture points? Are you assuming that the existing chassis is straight and fixturing to the chassis as is? Or, are you measuring and squaring things up as you go? I remember when Sir Andy had his chassis on the cellete bench and how much work went in to straightening his chassis. What are your plans for suspension? It looks like you're going to continue with the strut type front suspension and semi-trailing arm in the rear. To me, a car this special deserves something special in the suspension department. Great work! Bill C |
Hontec |
Oct 2 2010, 02:26 PM
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I see things..... Group: Members Posts: 261 Joined: 23-September 10 From: Netherlands Member No.: 12,210 Region Association: Europe |
WOW! You have more effort into your fixturing than most have their 914s. Very impressive! You do fantastic work. I have a few questions: How are you locating your fixture points? Are you assuming that the existing chassis is straight and fixturing to the chassis as is? Or, are you measuring and squaring things up as you go? I remember when Sir Andy had his chassis on the cellete bench and how much work went in to straightening his chassis. What are your plans for suspension? It looks like you're going to continue with the strut type front suspension and semi-trailing arm in the rear. To me, a car this special deserves something special in the suspension department. Great work! Bill C Bill, Thank you very much. I'm using a mix of both methods, I know for a fact that this chassis is as straight as it will ever come and I constantly measure everything with reference to the fixture. As we speak i have around 2mm of difference. I can tell you after working on modern race and rally cars for many years, the 2mm I have now is way less than most of what I've seen on modern cars, long live adjustable suspension. talking about suspension; I've been seriously toying around with the idea of making this a 4wd car, let's call it the 914 4S.. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) I have bought a 964 carrera4 front suspension and I'm going to see how that will fit into the 914 chassis. there is a company in Australia that makes a reversed ring&pinion so you can flip the diff in the Subaru transmission and put it in "Porsche"style. for that setup I would use all subaru driveline, for the simple reason the porsche's is about 10x more expensive and also weighs in 6 times more. Subaru driveline parts are abundant and readily available. The rear suspension I'm in doubt. I am definately going to raise the rear suspension 2 inches for geometry but also temted to install the carrera4 rear suspension. If I go 2wd, I will raise the rear pickup points as well, with the stock 914 reinforced trailing arms and the front will be ERP Schocks will be almost certainly fox, but I also know the guys at Intrax and Proflex..... Thanks Randall |
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