Marino’s rwd Platz

[lush]

Just need to make it clear this guy is not from Northland, 

he is from a boat,

conceived on a boat,

Probably makes love to a boat too

 

We run a tight ship up here and don't tolerate this kind of behavior 

[Dudley]

If the boats a rockin don’t come a knockin?

[chasinthemirage]

Just when you think you've seen it all OS pulls another one out of the bag. Looking forward to seeing how this turns out!

[AllTorque]

11 hours ago, Marino Fischer said:

I went with the t40 transmission as mainly a mock up for a future t50. I wanted to use it as supposed to a j160 as it’s on the smaller side so I have to do minimal modification to my transmission tunnel

Have you put it in the hole. I would have thought the floor would need chopping.

[Marino Fischer]

9 hours ago, AllTorque said:

Have you put it in the hole. I would have thought the floor would need chopping.

Yea the tunnel does need raising but not by much and I reckon I can do that without making it too noticeable 

[Dudley]

People don’t know, but Marino is pretty handy on the bog, so he’ll make it invisible to the normal geriatric wof inspector

[lowlancer]

This is the kinda fucked up weirdness that makes this place great after all these years. Cannot wait to tell my "car mates" about this one. Love that you are keeping the original engine, see if One NZ will sponsor you.

[kp60nick]

True Gc @Marino Fischer  your outside the box thinking and can do attitude is inspiring. Keep going forward try not to get sidetracked like I do. Great to see you posting on here now. 

The platz is almost at the point my family has banned me from pointing them out. 

But at work I make my coworkers take photos of them for me. 

Any ideas for steering column and rack yet? 

[Marino Fischer]

9 hours ago, kp60nick said:

True Gc @Marino Fischer  your outside the box thinking and can do attitude is inspiring. Keep going forward try not to get sidetracked like I do. Great to see you posting on here now. 

The platz is almost at the point my family has banned me from pointing them out. 

But at work I make my coworkers take photos of them for me. 

Any ideas for steering column and rack yet? 

Awesome im glad you share the same autism as me. It’s funny you say about getting sidetracked as this is me not working on my other cars I should be finishing😆. 
 

for the steering rack I hope to go with mx5 or similar and go front rack and then use something like kp front suspension and flip the steering arms around. Thats my plan so far. 

[mjrstar]

I would avoid flipping a rear steer arrangement to front steer it will ruin Ackerman.

 

Front steer has the balljoint outwards and rear steer inwards of the knuckle pivot point.

[Marino Fischer]

3 hours ago, mjrstar said:

I would avoid flipping a rear steer arrangement to front steer it will ruin Ackerman.

 

Front steer has the balljoint outwards and rear steer inwards of the knuckle pivot point.

It shouldn’t ruin Ackerman im not swapping the knuckle left to right im turning it 180 degrees because they are a 2 bolt system and then the ball joint should be on the outside of the knuckle

[cletus]

Ackerman = the steering arms should be roughly inline with the rear axle center

So rear steer = the pivot points of the tie rod ends are closer together than the balljoints

If it's front steer they should be further apart, this is often a bit limited by other things

Flipping the spindles around so they are rear steer used in a front steer setup will  have anti ackerman where the outside wheel will turn more than the inside which is opposite of what you want 

[Marino Fischer]

27 minutes ago, cletus said:

Ackerman = the steering arms should be roughly inline with the rear axle center

So rear steer = the pivot points of the tie rod ends are closer together than the balljoints

If it's front steer they should be further apart, this is often a bit limited by other things

Flipping the spindles around so they are rear steer used in a front steer setup will  have anti ackerman where the outside wheel will turn more than the inside which is opposite of what you want 

I see what your saying but that would only be the case for swapping left to right knuckles but if you leave the knuckle on the same side it came off and bolt it on in the forward facing position it would have positive Ackerman. To be clear this isn’t swapping the spindles around as the arm used for steering is removable and can be rotated. 

[Marino Fischer]

1 hour ago, cletus said:

Ackerman = the steering arms should be roughly inline with the rear axle center

So rear steer = the pivot points of the tie rod ends are closer together than the balljoints

If it's front steer they should be further apart, this is often a bit limited by other things

Flipping the spindles around so they are rear steer used in a front steer setup will  have anti ackerman where the outside wheel will turn more than the inside which is opposite of what you want 

Doing further research I think technically it would give positive Ackerman but the ball joint pickup would be on a weird angle because that arm isnt flat and Thatd be amplified when flipped so it’d probably end up on a 45 degree which probably wouldn’t be ideal. Do you have any ideas for McPherson with a front rack Thats capable of fitting 13s??

[Dudley]

7 minutes ago, Marino Fischer said:

Doing further research I think technically it would give positive Ackerman but the ball joint pickup would be on a weird angle because that arm isnt flat and Thatd be amplified when flipped so it’d probably end up on a 45 degree which probably wouldn’t be ideal. Do you have any ideas for McPherson with a front rack Thats capable of fitting 13s??

Yo where’s my shout out for being the further research?

[Dudley]

Young people just want all the clout for themself, unreal

 

[dave]

1 minute ago, Dudley said:

Young people just want all the clout for themself, unreal

 

Dudley I agree with you, young people can be selfish like that 

[Dudley]

Just now, dave said:

Dudley I agree with you, young people can be selfish like that 

Thanks Dave you sound like a good sort

[RXFORD]

11 minutes ago, Marino Fischer said:

Doing further research I think technically it would give positive Ackerman but the ball joint pickup would be on a weird angle because that arm isnt flat and Thatd be amplified when flipped so it’d probably end up on a 45 degree which probably wouldn’t be ideal. Do you have any ideas for McPherson with a front rack Thats capable of fitting 13s??

Just cut and weld them. I mean its not like anythings going to be legal or safe anyway...

[Marino Fischer]

4 minutes ago, Dudley said:

Young people just want all the clout for themself, unreal

 

@Dudley are you sure you can handle being associated with a Platz?