CR Rear suspension mods

[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