CR Rear suspension mods

[Cameron Parsons]

Mike... you're scaring me....

Amazing quality of work you are putting out there.

Cameron

[400TT]

When Mike turns up to club events he will have to bring his own hoist so we can all admire the engineering that has gone on underneath.

Looks fantastic. It's a real inspiration.

[Aussie Mike]

Thanks guys. I have a heap of fun working on this stuff. This is a problem in itself because I should be enjoying driving rather than working on it.

Cheers

[Mando]

Hi Mike,
I know everyones said it before, but the suspension work is stunning. I think we all love seeing all the pictures as you go along, keep it up.

Regards.

[Aussie Mike]

Thanks Mando, Seeing the pics of your narrowed CR rear end were part of the reason I had a go at this.



Your car is going to be stunning when it's all done.

Cheers

[Aussie Mike]

I've been pretty busy with work so haven't had much Cobra time. I finally got back into it over the last couple of weeks and my rear suspension is pretty much done. I've still got to build a rear sway bar setup but thats another project.

Here's the view from the rear



I ran into some trouble with my rear axles and had to have a bit of a rethink. I didn't have enough plunge in my drivers side axle to give me a decent range of camber adjustment. After a trip to the wreckers I found some shorter axles with plunging CVs at both ends. I machined up some new drive flanges to suit and its good as gold now. The new setup also has the same axle left and right so I bought an extra one as a spare in case I break one.



The rear end also went on a bit of a diet. I deleted the cross brace with all the sway bar holes and put in a 1" tube. The sway bar pickup will clamp to this tube. I changed the mount for the track control rod and machined up a simple spacer rather than the clevis i had. I found there was enough clearance in the rod end to mount it this way and the spacers were tidier and easier to make. I also reworked my camber adjusters and machined a heap of material out of them. These were fun to make.



Routing the brake lines in was a bit of a challenge. I already had braided line made for my old calipers and didn't want to have to change them. I had to work out a routing that would keep the line out of harms way and also let it flex up and down with the suspension. After a lot of twristing things round in different positions I found a run that works well.



The only job left to do (apart from refitting the springs) is to finish machining the passengers side caliper bracket. It just starts as a lump of 30mm square by 200mm long aluminium. Now that I've built one side duplicating it isn't hard as I can take all the dimensions off the first one.



Cheers

[boxhead]

Great stuff Mike, It is a pity when work gets in the way of Cobra stuff.

It will be good to see your car with all the mods you have done and still are doing, Hope to see you at the Nationals.

[stephen low]

Mike

I think you need a second car so you can just drive one and keep on re-working the second!!

I know I'm hanging out to get mine back on the road but there's a lot of work between now and that point of time, much of it out of my hands too.

Cheers

Steve

[LoBelly]

Noice

Great post - my favorite kind
You're going to have to bring some mirrors to put under your car at future events.

LoBelly

[Beejay]

Awesome work Mike!!!

It will be great to hear your thoughts on the handling after these mods.

Ben

[Gav]

Lovely work as always Mikey

[Mando]

Fantastic.

Regards.

[Aussie Mike]

It's finally sitting on it's wheels again.

Rear suspension is all done, Big brakes are all done. Just building a set of quiet side pipes and rubbing the body back for a coat of primer and I'm set to cruise this summer. Hooray!



Cheers

[Mando]

Come on Mike lets see a few more pics, maybe even a lot more pics.

Regards.