Sunday, March 27, 2011

Diff mounts

There hasn't been a lot of work done of late. There's been quite a few things that have happened. I wanted to get in and re-paint the entrance, halls, stairs area in our house. I never did like the colour we painted originally and it was looking a little tired as it gets a lot of traffic. I wish we'd changed it years ago. It looks so much better. We also bought a new house which has meant we've been doing a few things here and there to get this place ready. The good news about the new house is that is has a double car garage so I'll have a lot more room to move. The new house needs a little bit of work so it will probably eat into the time I would have normally spent on the car. We are going to get contractors in to do some of the work but I'll likely want to do at least some of it myself. The basement is very dated with wood panelling. So what I have managed to do lately is get the diff mounted. I had to cut out the brace for the front diff mount to use the rear subframe. The rear mount I could re-use but I had to manufacture the front mounts. I used some plate steel and rectangular tube to make the mounts. I welded on some bolts to the mounts. Finally I put a new brace in to attach the mounts to. I haven't taken photos yet but will post them shortly. I've spent time trying to work out the front suspension. I've modelled what I plan to do in some software and I think it looks OK. Its tough to try to balance everything I read to come up with a good suspension design. I'm hoping that what I've got for now is OK. It would be hard to fix later but it CAN be fixed if it is really bad. I'm looking to use off the shelf parts for the upper a-arms. I need to pick the parts and make sure I can mount properly while leaving access for the coil overs. So that will hopefully be the next part tackled.

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