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Old 06-04-2013, 07:17 PM
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Just a little update.
I will be racing over the long weekend, so did some work on the little car to have it ready.
After a really thorough clean up it was time to adjust the rear upper control arms, The aim here being to minimise the amount of change in chain tension, to do so, I dropped the shocks out, removed springs and refitted shocks so I could run suspension through its full travel.
Here is is with suspension at full compression.


In the end I needed to lengthen the top arms approx 1.5 inches.
So with any luck that will have eliminated any concerns of dropping a chain off.

Rear end all back together, after a look at the track I will take an educated guess if I need to stiffen up the sway bar.
Going out for a look at lunch time today.


Here it is by Sunday night, all done and awaiting the bonnets return after being painted.


I picked up the bonnet this morning, took it home and threw it on the car.
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