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pete wood 23 Windows of Awesome

6,828 posts · joined Jan 2004 ·

#402238
Been thinking about this on and off for a while. Figured it might be a good. Has anyone else thought about it or considered it? Better still has anyone done it?

Be good for the drags and circuit racing as well as offroad.

I figured the best thing might be to get the whole front end out of a late model jap thingo and then weld in parts of a beam front end so that you could bolt it up to the front of the pan. You could extend your wheel base by a few inches in the process if you wanted. Any ideas for a good front end doner?

Have to be similar track and brake size otherwise it would be too exy to change other stuff over.
"stoopid is stronger than axles"
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speedster356 Plastic not Classic Racing

1,624 posts · joined Aug 2002 ·

#402330
Ricola on this site has some CAD drawings of a front end he was developing.
http://www.ricola.co.uknn[ Edited on 29-8-2005 by speedster356 ]
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Anthiron The Baja Rejuvenation Begins

4,936 posts · joined Oct 2003 ·

#402411
heres one.

nn[ Edited on 29-8-2005 by Anthiron ]
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WABaja Call ME when you need a TOW

824 posts · joined Nov 2004 ·

#402439
That just looks wrong... Why is the motor hanging so far back....???
I hate to admit it, but man, I think you're right....

Doug Sweetman Nil Bastardo Carborundum

2,128 posts · joined Sep 2002 ·

#402481
It looks like it crapped itself......

Or a bit like a spider. Nice front suspension though....

pete wood 23 Windows of Awesome

6,828 posts · joined Jan 2004 ·

#402493
speedster356 wrote:Ricola on this site has some CAD drawings of a front end he was developing.
http://www.ricola.co.uknn[ Edited on 29-8-2005 by speedster356 ]
Yeah I saw rich's setup ages ago. What I was thinking was using a Jap front end not a custom made one. That way getting it engineered for rego will be so much easier. I wouldn't even start with anything the yanks do. It's all so high dollar and custom it's way too exy and breaks most of our ADRs.
"stoopid is stronger than axles"
http://drivingnotpolishing.blogspot.com.au/

fastnuf Slammed & Awesome Dubber

86 posts · joined Jan 2005 ·

#402520
WABaja wrote:That just looks wrong... Why is the motor hanging so far back....???

Probably because the Yanks lengthen the wheelbase of their race and pre-runner cars.
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malcolm Insano Dub Head

812 posts · joined Nov 2004 ·

#402678
mitsubishi L300 thats whats going in my oval and will pass vicroads adr $100 complete with disc brakes 82 model .

VWCOOL 23 Windows of Awesome

5,158 posts · joined Jun 2003 ·

#402684
WABaja wrote:That just looks wrong... Why is the motor hanging so far back....???
Um, looks like the motor is in the right place to me... just has alot of stuff hanging behind it
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pete wood 23 Windows of Awesome

6,828 posts · joined Jan 2004 ·

#402812
malcolm wrote:mitsubishi L300 thats whats going in my oval and will pass vicroads adr $100 complete with disc brakes 82 model .
what's the difference in track width and stuff?
Have you changed the springs? I would had thought they be a bit too stiff for a bug.
"stoopid is stronger than axles"
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malcolm Insano Dub Head

812 posts · joined Nov 2004 ·

#405363
narrow 70mm to 90mm,using hammer head pan mount front end 35 to 50mm above seam and the front will be lowered to give around 130mm ground clearence and will also give you full suspension travel.Haven,t work out the spring rate yet need the car almost completed to work out where the angle of the wishbones will be at the correct height then you measure the height between the lower and upper wishbone inside to give you a compression height and compair this to the uncompressed spring and woek out the weight of the front of the car . I,ll do the measurments then go to King springs and let them work out the spring rates they will be different to a super bug spring rates due to macpherson strut to double wishbone .I hope this helps and good luck.Hot rods use the same front end.