Well I finished up my front bags on the frame, put it together, and rolled it outside to finally get a better look at this thing! I am so excited to see it outside and rolling finally. I still have to finish the wishbone for the rear, and mount the rear bags, but another full day will do that. I am really pleased with the front bags, they are totally hidden aired out, and with the grille on they are nicely concealed at ride height as well. The front air set-up works smooth as can be, no binding, nice and smooth. Heres some pics of the frame aired out, then some at ride height(5" off the ground)
Looks good. Are you going to mount the bags over the axles? Are you doing 4 wheel independant control to keep the body roll down? -b
Thanks! The rear bags will be Firestone F9000 Sleeve Bags, mounts behind the axle. For the air management I have (8) 3/8 smc electric valves, for independant 4-corner control
Nice work now i see why you made the front x member the way you did. It hides the bags nicely im sure lots of time went into that ch***is and it shows thanks for the pics bill
Like I said before...beautiful!! It looks like you have that suspension working perfect. Nice job on the design.
Looks good! Did you design the front suspension yourself, or is that a "hidden bag" kit that you made work for your ch***is?
looks awesome, I wanted to run that exact frontend setup but due to money restraints decided to go with a leaf spring setup. Hope I get mine to that point soon
Thanks guys, I appreciate! I'm so happy to see it looking like something finally. The front bag set-up is from Cen-Pen. I modified it though, as it is meant to work like a spring-over-axle setup. I modified it to run the axle suicide, as it wouldn't go low enough with the swing arms over the axle
Very nice work! I have been following your build and it almost makes me wish I hadn't made mine a tub.
Thanks for all the nice words! Its funny you say that, I saw your recent pics and though how good your tub looked-I guess its the gas is always greener thing ha. I'm glad to keep it a lowly fordor sedan though. Lots of people were giving me sh*t when I told them that I was planning on building a fordor, and that just made me want to keep it that way and make it cool. Now that its starting to look decent my friends(NONE of which build cars evenare suprised its starting to look decent. Not that I wouldn't LOVE to have one, but if EVERYBODY had a 32' coupe, even those could get boring if there was nothing else. So even though its FAR from a 32' coupe, I'm trying to make the best of what I have, and can afford Keep posting updates on your tub!
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