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The Journey continues

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" C.Dickens

Long time no blog post, I guess most of the time I post on Instagram and neglect to come on here. In some ways it has been a good time for the shed and in other ways not so much.

After moving house and getting a bigger shed I have more space, I've managed to purchase a Mill and a band saw as well as some other tooling. I've spend a fair bit of time mucking around with the front suspension and I think I have it how I want it now.

Unfortunately with four children, the property, kids sport etc there is not a lot of time to spend in the shed, mostly later in the evening once everyone is in bed.

I made a bit purchase and brought an RX7 FC, S5 13B motor in unknown condition with a MicroTech LT-9c for $3,000. I've started stripping it down and will clean it up and rebuild it, with the view of running it on E85.

I've reworked the design of the steering rack location to have it correctly in front of the front axle line. To do this I needed to remake the front frame rails to provide room for the steering rack. I've shortened up the tie rods and using the extra thread I had cut onto them they are now in place with new tie rod ends.

I still need to make a shaft between the steering rack and the uni-joint at the end of the steering column. I originally boxed the joint into the firewall as with the previous design I didn't have a lot of space however this is no longer an issue.

Before I can finish the front suspension and steering I still need to make up some small spacers 5-8mm to help clear the brake calipers as they are currently fouling the wheels. I'd also like to make up some center caps for the wheels as I have access to a small lathe.


Tie Rods in place, Camber and Caster within a good range, I altered the knuckle to allow the use of the standard strut towers and not have too much caster angle.




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