Rick
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| posted on 7/5/03 at 08:28 PM |
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Live axle to IRS?
Just a quicky please (said that before )
Is there much work to do to a book chassis to change to IRS?
Rick
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scutter
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| posted on 7/5/03 at 08:59 PM |
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Try looking at this gents site Micks locost, he's built a locost front with
a tiger irs rear.
Dan.
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James
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| posted on 8/5/03 at 09:47 AM |
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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
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kingr
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| posted on 8/5/03 at 11:15 AM |
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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
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Rick
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| posted on 8/5/03 at 11:19 AM |
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Thanks for that gentlemen,probably stay live buy as Kingr said IRS does look better.
Regards Rick
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