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Re: express intrest : adj. strut tops
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Wow somebody has done a great job of drawing that up!

My tops are almost the same, but rather than the 3 arc shaped slots at the perimeter of the top plate I have 3 sets of 5 mounting holes, to adjust camber you unbolt the strut and turn the top to the new position.

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Re: express intrest : adj. strut tops
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ahh o.k.

do you mean 3 sets of 5 holes
or 5 sets of 3 holes???

if it was 3 of 5 that would mean your spring perches have extra studs yes?

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Re: express intrest : adj. strut tops
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Jeez I wish I had a digi cam!

No my struts don't have studs as such, the top alloy plate (very similar to the one in the cad drawing) bolts to the strut tower of the body using three bolts, the strut itself then bolts to the alloy plate using 4 bolts to locate the bearing carrier to the plate.

Camber adjustment is made by loosening off the 4 bolts of the bearing carrier and sliding the strut either toward the engine for neg camber or away from engine for pos camber.

Where the very top plate of the system in the cad drawing has 3 evenly spaced curved slots around the perimeter, mine simply has the equivelent as sets of holes, each set consisting of 5 holes, castor adjustment is achieved by turning the whole top plate because once the strut is no longer in the middle of the camber adjustment slots it moves through an eccentric arc.

Sorry for the long post, sorry for the terrible explanation, maybe someone else can do better.

Cheers

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nah thats cool i get it now, i was thinking of a set as being 5 holes you use at once (one from each location) rather than 5 adjacent holes at one location if you know what i mean



BTW - im so happy im getting a digi cam for my 21st b'day, in a couple of weeks, many pics to come, may have to delete some old ones

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Camera sounds cool, looking forward to lots of new pics

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Re: express intrest : adj. strut tops
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Ajustable strut tops are great, but you do a lot of work to build them, set them once and rarely change them again. The other problem is the possibility of them moving.
I found that it was better to make a top that simply gives as much camber and castor as possible and use ajustable radius rods (modified Falcon) for final castor, and a minor strut bend for camber changes.
I've posted some pictures and have my original CAD drawings if anyone is interested.

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