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Risking Grand Master

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As I said mike any time at all, and thanks for the kind words.

Hopefully during the few hours you spent here you took away a few ideas.

I will update the thread very shortly mate, there is a heap to be seen.

If you do want photos of something specific that you didn't get to take just let me know.

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All control arms are or will be 4130 once I'm happy with them.

I've been making 3 or more arms till I'm 100% happy with it so instead of wasting Molly tube and money I prototype everything in mild steel tube first.

Same as the uprights they are now 4130 but the ones in that photo are just old cage material offcuts to get it right.

The hubs are original GTR mounted to a custom tube upright.

The front are original r32gtr uprights and bearings with custom pins and mounting locations.

All the pick ups on te chassis rails are now done in proper laser cut 4130 folded plates.

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Here are a few photos from the early mock up stage of the rear suspension and one of the front early mock up.

You can see the fabricated rear upright which has now been modified, jigged and built from 4130. Same sort of principal though. I have built Jigs for every final part from the protypes.

Alot of this has now changed and been finished off with the right materials and fully welded.

Ride height in those photos is a bit higher as well.

The rims are just dumby fits, it has 18*13 rears and 12.5 fronts.

The GTR rear diff is also mounted properly now and driveshafts are being made.

I have tried to stick with as much usable R32-R34 parts as possible on this car to try and keep it simple when spares are needed, alot of things can be used on either of the GTR's which is handy.

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It would be nice If everythibng was parallel.

it does look very much that way in those photos but it's not.

It does have a little bump steer which is easily tunable, it has some camber gain which is built into the chassis design.

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Dammit Brad - you have made me do bad things!!!

Im now starting to get stuff together for a lotus 7 thing....Damn space frame threads!1221 lol

Oh and did you get my message about the 33 shell?

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Also, any more pics of the front suspension? looking at using the front uprights/hubs off the 33 on the front end.

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Hey guys

I am following in this project from the start on - I am the guy from Slovakia with the space frame GTR32 - I manufactured my own hubs - its an universal design with flexible points to weld to - laser cut, welded and heat treated, surface treated, hardened aviation steel.

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They are made for GTR hub bearings but I am thinking of redoing them to fit Audi A8 bearings as they are easier accessable.

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If anyone interested let me know as I could supply them in a short time.

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Take care and good luck with the car - would love to see both cars in a shoot-out - time attack :happy:)

Regards

Tom

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