So I need to start this by thanking my two best mates, Kieran and Flint.
They are amazing and make my stupid ideas not so stupid and actually do things, otherwise my ideas would simply remain ideas.
Kieran is an engineer/welder by trade and Flint is just Flint, give him any power tool and he'll get on with it.
So I've wanted rear camber on the GT for quite a while, and have looked at the way that other people have done it, Grant and Mikey and taken some inspiration from that. Originally I was planning on just following the way that they have done it, but with Kieran's help and advice, the way it was done has changed slightly and I think its for the better, resulting in more strength and a safer set up.
So, I had a set of stub axles that had been roughly chopped off a glanza beam by grant and sent to me a year or two ago.
Last weekend, I finally got the rear axle down the workshop and Kieran and Flint got straight to work, whilst I pranced around asking stupid questions and taking photos:
Here are the stub axles in question recived from grant. The first thing to do was to remove the majority of the material from the back of the stub axle chop and then get it in the lathe.
at that point Kieran then lathed material off the back until we had a completly flat face:
This was then checked with a micrometer to check it was even across the whole face. Kieran took several readings, and the average came out at 21.7mm, there was a discrepancy of less than half a mm across the face, We decided this was within acceptable tolerances.
The next part was to chop the beam off, So again Kieran got cutting and removed the stub nose from the stub axle on the beam:
Flint then got the grinding disk out and being careful not to touch the rest of the plate flatted down the last few mm of the stub axle
Once these were ground back they were checked with engineer layout fluid, and found to be flat
The next thing was to get the stub axles in the pillar drill and drill them through so they could be bolted back to the axle
This is currently as far as I've got. I am currently waiting for some High Tensile bolts to be delivered - m12 x 1.25 - 12.9 Strength.
These will be used to bolt the stub axle and the braking backing plate to the beam.
The alignment will be adjust by use of a shim like the example below on a lupo:
The advantage of doing it this way and utilising two rear axles are as below:
Increase in track, like spacers, but much less load on the bearings
When inspecting the stub axles, it appears the nose of the axle is welded right the way through, so attempting to cut the stub axle from the beam may compromise some of the strength in the stub axle, this could potentially lead to your whole rear wheel assembly falling off in the event of a catastrophic failure. This method means all the material is still there and should hopefully result in the maximum strength
I will update this post once the bolts and my polybushes have arrived. Then hopefully the modified axle should be going on the car in the next week or two
again its necessary to thank Kieran and Flint for all their help/doing it for me.
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get a purple light under the 4efe plate rob! looks great! love the look of the side where the sight is
