Norwood

[57hemicuda]

M&M's are only good out of a bag, plain or peanut. Freakin communist.

[SSLance]

Originally Posted by Sieg

Fractions are just plain S T U P I D!!!

The guy that was helping me is a machinist, he thinks in thousands of inches...

You should have seen him shaking his head at me trying to subtract 5/32nds from 17/32nds... lol...

[Sieg]

Originally Posted by 57hemicuda

M&M's are only good out of a bag, plain or peanut. Freakin communist.

鄉下人!

[intocarss]

Originally Posted by SSLance

The guy that was helping me is a machinist, he thinks in thousands of inches...

You should have seen him shaking his head at me trying to subtract 5/32nds from 17/32nds... lol...

I know the feeling.. You ever work on a dirt race car with an areospace engineer

I know why UroSieg uses mm...He's used to all his bikes

[Sieg]

Originally Posted by SSLance

The guy that was helping me is a machinist, he thinks in thousands of inches...

You should have seen him shaking his head at me trying to subtract 5/32nds from 17/32nds... lol...

Exactly!

1/10ths, 1/100ths, 1/1000ths.........what's that remind you of?

[glassman]

Originally Posted by Sieg

Exactly!

1/10ths, 1/100ths, 1/1000ths.........what's that remind you of?

I wish my dumb ole trade would switch to cm/mm. I have employee's who still have to count the digits LOL....

"As society regress's forward...."

[Sieg]

Originally Posted by glassman

I wish my dumb ole trade would switch to cm/mm. I have employee's who still have to count the digits LOL....

"As society regress' forward...."

In my flooring business I was glad to have inches, feet, and yards because once the carpet industry wised up to the fact that hardwood and ceramic tile competitors were killing them with price perception and switched to selling carpet by the square foot vs square yard the playing field was leveled........but it took a while for the good old industry boys to accept the paradigm shift. The consumer perceived hardwood at $6 sq. ft. as a much better 'value' than carpet at $24 sq. yd when it was actually $54 sq. yd. Accountants, teachers, university professors, bankers amazingly all fell into that trap.

In the metric system they are somewhat forced to sell by square meter as square centimeters is their next option.

Jer Dawg was right about the bikes as my first bike in '72 was metric as were the other 20+ that followed........

[Sieg]

Took a break from chassis/suspension grind yesterday afternoon to remind myself how lucky I was not to have been a framer my entire life.........





Material list:
12 - 96" kiln dried 2x4's
2 lbs 2.5" screws (128 screws)
Cost $40

Cut list:
24 - 14"
40 - 17.5"

Tool List:
Chop saw
Drill driver
Framers square
Small mallet (for tweaking alignment)

Finished height: 267.5 mm or for 57hemicuda 10-33/64" or 10.5315"

Time allotment: Approximately 4-5 uninterrupted hours.

My plan for turn plates is to use flexible cutting boards like these http://www.amazon.com/Clear-Flexible...ds+for+kitchen and lubricate them with Crisco for dishwasher cleanup.

[SSLance]

Nicely done! I used a nail gun and 2.5" nails to put mine together, went much quicker than with screws.

You'll love those... I use mine all of the time.

[Sieg]

Look DG no jackstands!



Front suspension is mostly reassembled and the car is sitting at ride height. I swapped out my front springs with some Hotchkis springs I had which should be slightly stiffer. The Hotchkis springs overall length was 1" shorter but they had finished ends and my old springs had one unfinished and one 'semi' finished end.

I was guessing the finished ends and stiffer rate wouldn't compress as much but the only way to find out was put it together and set it down. As it worked out it's only 1/8" lower than the old springs.

Now the issues.......previously I was not running lower bump stops and never have experienced harsh bottoming or coil bind. I installed some 1-5/8" cone bump stops on the lower arms and that leaves 1/2" to 5/8" free space between the bump stops and the frame stops.........not good, nor is the anti-roll bar relationship to the lower arm. That bar bushing grease zerk has 1" clearance from the lower arm......I'm thinking grease it remove the zerk and plug it just to be safe.





One solution to gaining travel/clearance may be these Global West cast aluminum .375" spacers, does anyone have experience with them?


Global West says 1 at the spring equals 2 at the body, though with the 3/8" spacer they spec 5/8" lift, not 3/4".

Regarding stance - 5/8" lift up front would be the max without altering the rear ride height. Fender openings front to rear would be 24.5" and 24.75" if those spacers deliver as stated.

Another gain could be cutting the bump stops or replacing with shorter style. The OEM lobe/triangle stops look like they may provide more initial travel. Prothane offers triangular stops in two heights 1-1/8" & 1-1/2" and Energy offers a 1-3/8".

I'm leaning towards the spacers and 1-1/8" stops at this point.

Any experience input would be greatly appreciated!