Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2003 12:02 pm
droopypete wrote:First a correction, Greg said:
"look at Peter's SPOA - it has very minimal flex to avoid breaking other things"
The reason it has minimal flex is, it is stock other than SPOA, it is engineered with a 1.6L, 33" tyres and the spring over, and as I am planing to put a 2.0 l engine in, and get it aproved by the engineer I am not playing with the suspension yet.
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mine has just a U bolt thickness below the axle tube, and before it had the spring pack, fish plates, U bolts, and nuts hanging down there, just waiting to snag me on a rock or slow me down trying to push it all through the mud.
sorry pete, i thought it was a "completed" setup...
as for solving the stuff hanging down below your axel tubing - that could be fairly simple - if you save 1" or clearance by going SPOA, just increase your tyre size by 2", that will equal the amount of clearance under the U bolts etc
), my springs are getting killed pretty quickly but i too am having a lot of fun - and indeed - that is what matters. 