New Wagon Build, and my Ute, cutting metal n stuff, coil overs, long arms (1 Viewer)

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V6 surf master cylinder, mirror image of the 80 series one just ports in a more convenient place
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man vs arcs and the start of a panhard bracket,
The I set it so the draglink and panhard are in the same position of their arcs, so 2” up and down from rideheight has no bump steer,
Enough meat in the top for future high steer
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Not bad, all radius arm bolts are in and the only thing forcing the diff is the jack and random coil over coils.
I can’t wait to see it on its wheels with some weight on the front end
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On its wheels finally,
still massive clean up to go, and finishing off of stuff but there’s light at the end of the tunnel.
Coils are just spares I threw in need to calculate sprung weight and order new
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Cross over bar started, only design consideration was that I could still open the power steering res with it on 😂
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Today I woke up and realised i was a moron, that’s the upper link hitting 100mm before the bumps, both sides,
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Oh well the best thing with metal is you can take it back out with a grinder. Now that’s a notch and a half lol

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More clearance problems, Oh look my car is starting to look like a block of cheese, shock to inner rail corner, at this point I was really wondering why I just didn’t put coil overs in the back, anyway pressing on,


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I know some people will think that much material taken out is fine but I don’t, will be filling all the notches and trying to gusset it all back to give it some strength,
Started with outside plates
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Some gussets.

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Also a major problem I have with aftermarket spring manufacturers is that is 95% of their lift coils are are actually no longer, or even shorter than the factory coils and stupidly high spring rates.

My Solution is literally 50mm coil spacers.
Coils stay captive with the 12” travel shocks, keeps the plush ride

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Worlds shortest shock towers.

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Also a lol and a lesson, reversed out of the driveway and the single sheer steering broke off the knuckle on my Ute.
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Lesson learnt, tie rod ends or double sheer only from now on
 
Shocks in

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Few things to sort out,
1: I think the steering tre are binding

2: a mate has a bucket load of new 79 series radius arm bushes, they push them out when fitting lift kits.
I installed them because free and genuine what’s not to like?


Well if you look at the bush there’s something vastly different with them compared to the 80 series ones

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New bushes on their way. I reckon it will free the front end up considerably

3: Rear shocks need valving changes

4: new front springs with the correct rates need to be purchased.


Anyway car seems to handle very well and I see it being a good thing once finished.

180mm up travel rear 160mm front isn’t bad from a 2” lift
 

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