BACK FROM THE DEAD
Project is actually in progress with a small snag that is specific to my personal goals
front cups went on the Aragosta coils no problem. As long as you correctly measure the shaft diameter, they will send you the appropriate air cup with hole sized to match
Rear is where i’m stalled. Picture is attached
As mentioned before, the rear cup needs custom machining to mate with the SPL top mount so it can securely hold the spring in place. Alot of the delay was going with a really lazy machina shop that sat on my project for a while, but we changed shops and now thats done. As shown in the picture, everything mounts together correctly
The SPL mdlink setup uses 65mm Swift springs, which fit essily into thr Stanceparts cup which is now mounted with the SPL topmount. As a side note that top mount is now adjustable, thanks to a new design
For EVERYONE ELSE, the project is basically done. Mount the tank and compressor, run your lines like any air setup, and viola.
My issue: the combined thickness of the SPL topmount and Stanceparts cup is approximately 2 inches thick. That means to maintain my current height, i need to be able to lower the spring 2 inches.
The SPL midlink, at my current height, only had about .5 inches of downward adjustment, which means i would be 1.5 inches higher. Thats not acceptable to me, eapecially with new more aggressive wheels coming in
So, i called SPL and the best we could do is a 5inch rear spring with the same weight (10kg). Apparently, no one makes a 4.5 inch, 65mm ID, 10kg spring; the next shortest length id 4 inch and the weights are completely off (more than quadruple the weight, if i recall). All of the lengths were eyeballed so once we get the new springs it may turn out the problem is solved
If the 5 inch spring still leaves the rear too high i’ll have tougher choices:
- live with the height like a bitch
- ditch the rear cups
- expensive custom machining on the SPL midlink spring perch to remove another .5 inches of material
Ill punt that decision till next week or so
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