*the everything from scratch buggy- by voodoo*

[borris]

Extending the cups and /or shortening the arms will add further misalignment to the axle/cv.What is the max misalignment and how much will those cv's take,bug?

[Admin]

the outer will go 45 degrees, the inner will to if it is setup right, the boots is a different story tho. I say extend the inners, and reduce the travel...

[borris]

Will they run at 40-45 degrees for extended time?

[Admin]

No, But the car shouldnt be set at max droop anyways...

[fabr]

That's very true but will it be as set up?

[Voodoochikin04]

i cant realy move them out anymore otherwise it will cause interference with my shock mounts on my arms.  ill just shorten my arms if it is nessacery

[SPEC]

I've been thinking on this since I first saw the picture...It looked like it was gonna bind or pull on the axles to me
VDC4, I know how you hate it when I get out the paint...But here goes anyway... I was thinking if you moved the mounting points for the arms and redid the top with a bend you'd still have to shorten the arms But keep your upper shock mount on the top without doing a complete redesign

[Voodoochikin04]

i cant extend those mounting points out like that. otherwise i wont be able to mount a sprocket or brake rotor. thats whay i made it the way it is. right now in order for the sprocket to line up, it will be extremely close to the edge of the rear end framing..

[SPEC]

I wondered about that tooMaybe plasma cut-outs for clearance?

[borris]

Ahhh,maybe?

[Voodoochikin04]

i think i got it figured out.. i moved the shocks to the outside top mount and outside lower mount.. dropped my ride height about 3 inches.  not very much angle on the cv axles now.. at full droop there is about an inch less now. all i need to do is shorten the ends of the arms and ill be set... also put the springs on the lowest tension.



also, notice in the picture above the bottom arms are angled a bit..  now with moving the shocks and lowering the spring preload, the arms are pretty much straight across.. 

[borris]

From  ride height how much droop and bump travel will you have?

[Voodoochikin04]

just estimating from what i seen from messing with it for a few minutes..  from full droop to ride hieght is about 2 or 3 inches travel at the shocks. and they have about a 6 inch stroke.  at full droop my shocks are at their end of course, and my cv's are just a little bit less than the maximum they can move. well on the mounting holes i have the shocks at now, at full droop its quite a bit less than the max.  overall ride hieght at the rear with me sitting in it (barley drops when i sit in it)  is about 7 inches.   i hope all my terminology is right.

[Voodoochikin04]

ok i measured today.   ride hieght with two people is 7 inches ground clearance. at full droop ground clearance is 9.5 inches.  from full droop to ride height with two people the shocks travel 1.5 inches out of their 6 inches of travel.  i think this is the info requested? 

[Voodoochikin04]

heres some detailed pictures of some things.  (not sure if its me, or this welder but sometimes it welds awesome and sometimes it doesnt wanna be consistent??)

this is how the shocks are set now. which lowers the rear.



rear carrier





rear upper motor mount