Dear forum members,
A great big thanks for all your help! Today I officially announced my project "done" meaning that now she's a "driving restoration". We have discussed the fact that these cars are never really done, but I think I have done everything I can and now it will be little improvements or repairs along the way to hours of blissful driving . Since my last posts have been about suspension I thought I would attach multiple shots of the set-up and give you my results although my results are really "feelings". Still not up to race car standards, with the recent help of Ben/Carl @ LaJolla, sfdon and our "club car racer" I was able to figure out a couple of things that resulted in a very "fun" test drive vs. my previous runs which were not confidence inspiring, so here is what I came up with; First there was a backfire problem which in my case seemed to be caused by a lean mixture caused by fuel starvation; I put in an electric flow through pump that operates only when the starter is cranking, but that seems to have been enough to keep the system pressurized I think it also incorporates a check-valve preventing fuel from returning back to the tank. In any case good starts and no more back-fire. Next, return to center issue; you all guessed it! The washers were in backwards on one side-I had a friend do this for me, and no anger-it was free, but when I took them apart there was some scoring on the steel perch indicating that the bearing case was riding on the plate under load. DQ sent some pictures so I simply could not get it wrong, BTW if you are using CN springs there is hardly a need for a spring compressor to safely remove the bearings. The handling is vastly improved with the fix and new bearings were put in for good measure. The last issue I have been addressing is the excessive "bounce" in the rear when cornering. This was vastly improved with the replacement of the front bearings, although there is obviously no effect on the shock/spring travel in the rear, the handling was better in that I could get the car to slide around a corner rather than giving me the sensation of possibly rolling over. I may have more to address on that in the future but it's handling like a BMW now. So below are the pictures of the set up on multiple posts.
Cheers! ALL!!
A great big thanks for all your help! Today I officially announced my project "done" meaning that now she's a "driving restoration". We have discussed the fact that these cars are never really done, but I think I have done everything I can and now it will be little improvements or repairs along the way to hours of blissful driving . Since my last posts have been about suspension I thought I would attach multiple shots of the set-up and give you my results although my results are really "feelings". Still not up to race car standards, with the recent help of Ben/Carl @ LaJolla, sfdon and our "club car racer" I was able to figure out a couple of things that resulted in a very "fun" test drive vs. my previous runs which were not confidence inspiring, so here is what I came up with; First there was a backfire problem which in my case seemed to be caused by a lean mixture caused by fuel starvation; I put in an electric flow through pump that operates only when the starter is cranking, but that seems to have been enough to keep the system pressurized I think it also incorporates a check-valve preventing fuel from returning back to the tank. In any case good starts and no more back-fire. Next, return to center issue; you all guessed it! The washers were in backwards on one side-I had a friend do this for me, and no anger-it was free, but when I took them apart there was some scoring on the steel perch indicating that the bearing case was riding on the plate under load. DQ sent some pictures so I simply could not get it wrong, BTW if you are using CN springs there is hardly a need for a spring compressor to safely remove the bearings. The handling is vastly improved with the fix and new bearings were put in for good measure. The last issue I have been addressing is the excessive "bounce" in the rear when cornering. This was vastly improved with the replacement of the front bearings, although there is obviously no effect on the shock/spring travel in the rear, the handling was better in that I could get the car to slide around a corner rather than giving me the sensation of possibly rolling over. I may have more to address on that in the future but it's handling like a BMW now. So below are the pictures of the set up on multiple posts.
Cheers! ALL!!
