gavin174
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| posted on 30/6/08 at 05:05 PM |
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sierra IRS
i have bought a "book" chassis which was obviously made to take the escort live axle..
i am planning to use the sierra irs and was wandering what the best/easiest way of doing it is..
i have bought the haynes roadster book and was thinking of copying the rear craddle (adding 20mm) and grafting this in to rear..
i know i will need wider rear arches to cover the wheels but would prefer to keep standard driveshafts...
any input gratefully recieved
cheers gavin
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Paul TigerB6
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| posted on 30/6/08 at 06:26 PM |
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Have you also considered a DeDion rear end?? Might be a simpler conversion to do (although i am not talking from experience)
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gavin174
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| posted on 30/6/08 at 07:54 PM |
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i am willing to consider anything!!!
do you mean fitting the original rear beam
as is....
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oldtimer
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| posted on 30/6/08 at 09:04 PM |
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There have been a lot of posts on here about IRS v De Dion, and I do not intend entering that bear-pit. I would do which ever is easiest given your
set up as the arguements for both run pretty deep. I bought a part built with de dion and was going to go IRS till I read all the posts on the subject
and decided to stay as it was - not that I'm saying it's 'better' anyone......
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MikeR
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| posted on 30/6/08 at 09:05 PM |
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If your interested in going de-dion - have a chat with me. I'm in the middle (well near the end) of the conversion.
Not difficult - depends on what you want to achieve, nice looks or effective?
Basically you need to make a diff mount, put new trailing arm bracket on and modify two rear tubes.
(or if you're me - make a whole new set of trailing arms mounts for interchangable live or de-dion axle, modify the rear end to look more
caterham esque and make a detachable diff mount.)
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