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This section on other websites has led to arguments and contention. People are posting pictures of their pride and joy and therefore CONSTRUCTIVE comments only please!
If so you can have your own thread in this section.
This section on other websites has led to arguments and contention. People are posting pictures of their pride and joy and therefore CONSTRUCTIVE comments only please!
Dave’s long-term Lil’Bugga Buggy Build
19 Apr 2022 06:25 - 19 Apr 2022 06:27 #242992
by Lambert
Do you know what rate these springs are, as looking at them they seem quite beefy? For this to work smoothly you need fairly weak springs as helpers so that they are fully compressed at normal rode height. Unless you are actually wanting them to work as a progressive rate compound system? It's just if they are too stiff then you will not have any movement in the slider section except at full compression. Ideally it needs modeling with some idea of the final weight of the buggy.
Temeraire (2018 quasar grey automatic)
One of the last 200ish of the gen3s, probably.
ADOS Attention Deficit Ooooh Shiny!
Replied by Lambert on topic Dave’s long-term Lil’Bugga Buggy Build
Just browsing eBay, as you do, and some second-hand coilover springs popped up…
bid gone in
looking at stock suspension -
the cone with the bump stop on the bottom inside the spring looks to be 2”+3” long, and these are about 5.5” long, so should compress to 2” to 3” ?
(ones is 6.5” long but Mr.Angry will soon sort that
And they’re 2.25” internal diameter so will slip nicely over some 2” OD seamless tube roll cage off cuts I’ve got lying round, which will make the outer tube of the ‘pistons’ I’ve proposed above…
Do you know what rate these springs are, as looking at them they seem quite beefy? For this to work smoothly you need fairly weak springs as helpers so that they are fully compressed at normal rode height. Unless you are actually wanting them to work as a progressive rate compound system? It's just if they are too stiff then you will not have any movement in the slider section except at full compression. Ideally it needs modeling with some idea of the final weight of the buggy.
Temeraire (2018 quasar grey automatic)
One of the last 200ish of the gen3s, probably.
ADOS Attention Deficit Ooooh Shiny!
Last edit: 19 Apr 2022 06:27 by Lambert.
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19 Apr 2022 13:29 - 19 Apr 2022 13:33 #242996
by X8GGY
Replied by X8GGY on topic Dave’s long-term Lil’Bugga Buggy Build
Too late! I won them last night for £22 delivered, so worth a look and a play…
When I originally zoomed in on the eBay hi-res photo I reckon they’re wound from 8mm wire and the coils are 20mm apart… they’re 5.5” long and I need them to compress to 2.5” - 3” to equal the stock position of the bump stop cone mounting, which I reckon to be about 4” below the spring seat in the photo now on the previous page, so the bump will actually be more like this -
To give me more droop and upward articulation with the long shocks (29” open, 15” closed so 14” of available travel not that I’ll need that much! Not with stock radius arms and narrowed axles…,)
So in my awful sketch there’s still another 2” of unassisted droop still available…
When I originally zoomed in on the eBay hi-res photo I reckon they’re wound from 8mm wire and the coils are 20mm apart… they’re 5.5” long and I need them to compress to 2.5” - 3” to equal the stock position of the bump stop cone mounting, which I reckon to be about 4” below the spring seat in the photo now on the previous page, so the bump will actually be more like this -
To give me more droop and upward articulation with the long shocks (29” open, 15” closed so 14” of available travel not that I’ll need that much! Not with stock radius arms and narrowed axles…,)
So in my awful sketch there’s still another 2” of unassisted droop still available…
Last edit: 19 Apr 2022 13:33 by X8GGY.
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