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Live axle to IRS?
Rick - 7/5/03 at 08:28 PM

Just a quicky please (said that before)

Is there much work to do to a book chassis to change to IRS?

Rick


scutter - 7/5/03 at 08:59 PM

Try looking at this gents site Micks locost, he's built a locost front with a tiger irs rear.

Dan.


James - 8/5/03 at 09:47 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Rick
Just a quicky please (said that before)

Is there much work to do to a book chassis to change to IRS?

Rick


Just quickly:

Yes!

IMO putting the extra effort/time into digging up a MKII Escort or cortina is a lot easier!

HTH,

James


kingr - 8/5/03 at 11:15 AM

Hmmm, well, although I'm not at a rolling chassis stage, I'm not a million miles off, and I can't say I've had any particularly massive problems, or anything that's taken a hideously long time. There are benefits to doing IRS (likely cheaper, easier to change diffs and get hold of LSDs, rear disk brakes - even if they're not necesary, they certainly look a lot better, far more adjustable.....).

If you're going to go the IRS route, get the tiger book, and get the revisions to it. Get a CAD program (preferably a solid modeller), learn to use it and then create all the parts in it (rear end of chassis, brackets, uprights, wishbones, bushes, crush tubes....), this will save you a lot of unneccessary head scratching, grinding, welding and throwing away.

As I've said before, I'm currently working on a complete model of the chassis, front and rear wishbones and uprights to allow use of the Sierra running gear, but it's not due out any time soon, so don't hold your breath. Rest assured though, that when if and when it is finish, here will be the first place it'll be.

Kingr


Rick - 8/5/03 at 11:19 AM

Thanks for that gentlemen,probably stay live buy as Kingr said IRS does look better.

Regards Rick