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Originally Posted by mach4
Today was focused on getting the subframe spacers done.
I'm a member of the local EAA (Experimental Aircraft Association) chapter and they have a couple of lathes at the hangar that are available to members, so I was able to go down there and log some lathe time.
They will never win a machinist award, but they are functional. I made them a little more than 1/2" but I can just turn the shoulder a bit if I end up with better hood clearance than I'm anticipating. |
Are you still having to go down this spacer road? I would be concerned that by spacing the subframe away from the body you're going to alter the angles the steering box and idler arms make with the tierods to the wheels. Have you done a trial lock -to -lock with the steering? I ask because I'm in the throes of a similar conversion and at full lock the inner balljoints are very close to the sump edge both sides. By dropping the engine relative to the center tierod that clearance may be gone. Being in the UK I have a different problem. Whereas your steering box fouls the oil filter, on a right-hand-drive car it's the exhaust downpipe that has no place to go; the steering box being on the opposite side.
