| Re: Banski MotorSports now has the Hardbar pintop shock mounts in a C4 specific kit |
Subject: Re: Banski MotorSports now has the Hardbar pintop shock mounts in a C4 specific kit by astock165 on 2010/3/3 1:35:02 Quote: CentralCoaster wrote: I see your point on the eyelets in back, but in front there is only one axis of rotation for the control arm, so if the shock is perpendicular to the LCA pivot axis, eyelets would work top and bottom. I don't see where a spherical setup would help the geometry. Exactly right and all I really wanted to do was to be able to account for the fact that the shock will probably never be perfectly perpendicular to that axis in the real world. If I can easily account for some off axis deflection I like to. Quote: CentralCoaster wrote:As for the materials... it seems like something like this could work. You could machine grooves in the eyelet to hold the snap rings in place or fabricate some other means of sandwiching or clamping it in there. That's what I started working towards. I just found the eyelets on the front Bilstiens I have were sized such that the spherical bearing I ended up using was smaller than I wanted and the T-bar on the bottom would have been much smaller than I would have been comfortable with. The front shocks had a tapered cross section to its eyelet, complicating the bearing holders.
Below is what I started to develop but just didn't think it was worth the effort for a set of shocks I really only plan on using for a season or two until I can upgrade to Penskes with the spherical bearing bottom mount anyway.
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