anybody can enlighten me how they do this rear wheel camber? AFAIK, sunny use live axle. do they convert their rear suspension to IRS?

this one Bakat is like your 1600 some people have
converted their wagons to the sedan irs its not
that difficult from what Ive read.
Always love the 180b wagons.

As far as I know they heat up the axel tubes and bend them slightly or chop a little triangle off the diff side and weld the tubes back on making them point slightly up, the output splines in the differential can tolerate a degree or two but it's not the best thing in the long run.

wow i guess beauty is pain, yes? lol. a friend of mine asked about this and i dunno how really they do that unless they convert it to IRS.

thanks for the answer, D n LFO!

I wouldn't alter the axle tube angle at all let alone a degree or 2! It will result in a noisy and rooted diff.. And you will soon be a pro at replacing axle bearings. IRS is the only way

They don't go over 30kph, so it lasts a while.

you can do it with a solid axle, you just have to modify the diff so that instead of running normal axles it runs irs style axles with CVs so that they can handle the change in angle

Its pretty expensive to do i imagine and is more for racing situations where rear camber is wanted

All the V8 supercars do it, they run neg camber on their live axles.

Basically the axle tubes are bent the amount required. I have done it (involuntarily after a massive jump and even harder landing) and we ran 500kms with a couple of degrees camber on the rear with no issues.

I have also straightened axle tubes that have been bent in similar circumstances as mine, just heat the tubes cherry red and then quench with a cold wet rag, it slowly brings the tubes back into line quite easily..

wow i never imagined any other way than going independent.

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In the case of V8 supercars and many other live axle racecars, to acheive the desired rear camber setting they also employ the use of floating hub assemblies, like these Harrop bad boys.




If budgets could allow, these would be fantastic on our datsuns. [i wish]

I sent my diff housing away to a diff specialist who specialise in camber correction [allignment] of live axle housings utilising laser allignmnet methods. Basicall they straighten the housing to 0 camber and 0 toe and then allign the housing to the customers requirements after that. I managed to get -3/4 degrees camber and 3mm toe in. Anything exceeding those types of numbers and the life expectency of the bearings will be significantly reduced, plus also additional forces would be seen on the alxe splines and side gears in the hemisphere.