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Another bug gets optimised

matberry · 2013-08-24T02:06:36+00:00

Damo has had his car on the road for a while now and was never really happy with the front suspension that he had pro built (by a dub specialist too) so he brought the bug up to my workshop for a bit of tweaking to get things sorted. Firstly the suspension hardly actually moved when driving or just negotiating a bump like a driveway lip, also the steering was stoopidly tight so when steering into a corner, you actually had to manually straighten the wheel to come out of the corner. Man it was positively dangerous to drive. The Whitline swaybar attachment to the lower shock mount is also a little agricultural so we redesigned that too, along with fitting improved CSP front end supports. The CSP front end stiffiners make the connection from the beam lower tube to the front body mount bulkhead, this is only able to do around 30% of it's potential so I added the diagonal supports to tie in the top tubes as well. We ordered steering box clamps from CSP with the supports to do this. These were trial fitted and modified to do the job properly The front end suspension and steering were both rectified by correcting work done previously, ie. 2 ball joints were replaced and one lower trailing arm bush required reaming to gain free movement. Also a ton of sand was properly cleaned out from the inside (aparently left over from sandblasting) luckily he had done minimal mileage or the outer needle bearings would have been toast. I juggled the torsion leaf positions as the previous shop had also stuffed up on thier redrilling for the 2" narrowing and we couldn't get the desired camber specs previously, even with the aftermarket adjusters with more offset. So all was reassembled and lubed properly. 🙂 For the sway bar links, we fitted 4 x Heim joints and a threaded rod link to the lower shock mounts for a nice adjustable system that should work well without the stoopid chunks of angle iron that normally come with the kit that are so problematic. Pics tell the story here. So the alignment went well, not quite the camber we desired but 1 degree neg both sides was achieved where previously we could only get zero, all without making another set of torsions, so we're happy. 🙂 Enjoy driving your awesome car Damo, it's a credit to you mate. One very nice German Looker (well once you get those wheels sorted 😉 )

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Joel Now containing 100\% E-Wang

9,368 posts · joined Feb 2006 · 26 Aug 2013, 10:04 am

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hellbugged wrote:Looks tell a thousand words..... Do you like the neat, almost sleeper/sweet street look or desire the hardcore " there's definitely more going on here" attention that comes with the dead giveaway of blackedness 🤘

Ain't that the truth, that's why I went from black back to silver

Top work as usual Matt 👍

hellbugged 48's and straight cuts

5,080 posts · joined Apr 2003 · 10 Feb 2014, 6:53 pm

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Heading to Sydney Drags this time Damo?