I’ve managed to spend a bit of time on the car this weekend. First of all, I wanted to be really sure that the diff was going to fit properly. So, I cut out some supports for it, following the CAD model that I showed you a short while ago. However, in an advance on the normal materials technology I used hardboard rather than aluminium for the diff support plates. It’s much easier to cut out, so it’s bound to be a better choice.
Archive for the ‘suspension’ Category
There’s quite a lot of good photos around of the race at Snetterton. The one shown here was taken by Derek Jones’ Dad at Russell chicane. That’s Tony just behind me, thankfully.
There’s another race meeting coming up so I needed to sort the Fury again. After Silverstone I was concerned that I might have deranged the suspension after narrowly missing a spinning Duncan by escaping over the huge kerb at Becketts. I noticed at the weekend that the F1 people were whinging about Monza having put some huge kerbs in. Serves them right, I reckon.
So, I tipped the Spectre chassis on its side-it’s still light enough to do that-and put the Fury in an accessible position and spent a merry 5 hours checking the suspension alignment, which all seemed to be fine. Hmm, that was a waste of time then.
After getting grey gunge all over my arms, I seem to have decided that I’m not happy with the POR-15 as a chassis treatment. It didn’t seem to be working as well as when I did the same thing to the Fury after setting that on fire. The difference is that back then I’d just had the chassis shot-blasted and that provides a pretty good key for paint-like stuff. So, I think I’m going to get the chassis powder coated and I phoned a local company, GKL Coatings, that Dan has used for powder coating and they sounded pretty competent so I’ll take the chassis there in a while. However, that means I really need to get everything that I want to do to the chassis done as soon as possible.
Having now got the front uprights from Jeremy the first job was to take them to bits! So, I took the bearing caps off and hence the hubs and exposed this rather nice looking spidery thing. These uprights are interesting in that they’re essentially a set of parts. The bearing support shaft here is just held at the back of the upright by a big nut. The steering arm, as you can probably see, is also a separate part.
