Sunday, April 8, 2007

Height Adjustment

Coil-over set at maximum ride height.

Front Ride Height


View of front right control arm with coil-over set at maximum ride height.

Cooling

Here's the new radiator, the lightweight SPAL fan saves a ton of weight compared to the OEM dual fan assembly. The oil cooler is mounted to the radiator with some custom brackets.










Tuesday, April 3, 2007

Assembling Strut






Bolting up the new carriers, coil over struts, half shafts & brakes.












Hub Carriers



Brand new hub carriers, with bearings, hubs and wheels studs installed by Bildon.



















Control Arms

Here are the new control arms, with spherical bearings (rear) and delrin bushing(front) preinstalled by Bildon. The bearings are Aurora part # COM-12T, 3/4" bore with PTFE liner. Bildon designed and supplied the bearing housings that press in to the control arms. The housings have a grove for a circlip that retains the bearing.

Subframe

The front suspension is starting to go back together. First thing is to reinstall the sub-frame that the control arms attach to, and upon which the engine mounts sit. Here's the subframe with the original control arms and transmission stay-rod attached.