Merlin's 4G Time Attack Lude

Post by **NafemanNathan** » Tue Apr 07, 2015 9:23 am

Point it uphill.

Post by **Merlin** » Tue Apr 07, 2015 10:22 am

Yup that might work

I'm going to contact MesiterR to find out what I am doing wrong

I can get the fronts to go uber low, which looks

but when it comes to lowering the rear I cant get them to do the same as the fronts.

Post by **Merlin** » Tue Apr 07, 2015 2:08 pm

Well the Lude god Rich Voaden has confirmed what I thought. I'm going to have to chop a little off the rear forks to get the height set to what I want. There is a sleeve that connects the fork to the damper. Inside the sleeve is where the lowering happens but at the moment the sleeve is full of fork and damper. Like so:

Edit - Also MeisteR say that I should wind off all the preload on the rear springs as the springs are very stiff and to allow for droop. This should also lower it a touch.

Post by **NafemanNathan** » Tue Apr 07, 2015 2:13 pm

Makes sense. Just make sure you clean those threads up well afterwards

Don't suppose you can borrow a die the right size can you? If you can, screw the die on first, make your cut and then when removing the die again, it will re-cut/clean up the thread

Post by **Merlin** » Tue Apr 07, 2015 2:33 pm

I am sure 3rd gen Steve has all the bits needed to do a clean job

3rd gen steve · Post by **3rd gen steve** » Tue Apr 07, 2015 3:33 pm

Merlin wrote:I am sure 3rd gen Steve has all the bits needed to do a clean job

I do but they are all in the "the pile".

Post by **indigolemon** » Tue Apr 07, 2015 3:47 pm

Nothing more uncomfortable than piles ...

Post by **NafemanNathan** » Tue Apr 07, 2015 4:07 pm

3rd gen steve wrote:
Merlin wrote:I am sure 3rd gen Steve has all the bits needed to do a clean job
I do but they are all in the "the pile".

Post by **Merlin** » Tue Apr 07, 2015 4:10 pm

That is not far off it

Post by **Merlin** » Wed Apr 08, 2015 11:30 am

The suspension is as sorted as it going to get for now. In the end we ran out of time to chop the rear forks so there is a little rake going on, but not much. At least everything is even between each side.

The front is quite low. The traction bar is the lowest part of the car now and is just less than 8cm off the ground so any form of individual of speed bump is a no-no

The car gets its wheel alignment on Friday and its power/weight session on Sunday.

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