clubstylus

If the chassis is out of align front to back, can you not adjust where your rear axle sits with your adjustable panhard rod to compensate?

acrobin wrote:If the chassis is out of align front to back, can you not adjust where your rear axle sits with your adjustable panhard rod to compensate?

Yes you can but adjustable panhards are not standard plus it's better if the chassis is close to correct in the first place. Even after F/F cut the towers off mine and re-welded them in position , I still made an adjustable panhard to fine tune things. My question to Jeff was '' does he know whether his chassis is staight '' Most people just put the car together assuming all is ok because the body can be mounted to hide any problem without realising it. Once I shouted about it in 1999 , other people started checking their completed cars. I intended competing in mine so having a pretty good eye anyway , it attracted my attention. Only then did I start measuring things. In fact Andy Bailey came up to me with various gear to help me string it out after it was built in an effort to maximise the cars track performance. Then I bought corner weighting gear to complete the exersize

jefferybond wrote:. Welding and powdercoat looked OK, but just general carelessness in it's assembly.

Jeff

Don't get me started on the quality of the powdercoating.
Let's just say surface prep must have been non-existent. It peeled off very quickly.
I've rust proofed & smoothrite'd all the bits I can see / get to over the last 9 years.

stylussprinter wrote: But did you string it out to check front to rear in line

I think I did once the wheels were on, maybe not with string but by sighting along a straight edge. Looked close enough to me.

Jeff