cheers mate ! glad you liked it

Thanks for the tip mate, but looks like its all worked out now, Rustydog1805 comment was on the mark.Happy Easter to you too mate

no worries mate, thanks for the tip

Thanks for watching! I appreciate your comment

cheers mate, i did watch those also

i believe you were using the measurement for a 1 piece frame. where you have a 2 piece frame. 1 piece frame = 20 1/4” 2 piece frame = 14 1/2”

Yeah all good now Stephen, following the curve of the chassis shows that measurement to be much closer to where it needed to be, who knows why they show a straight line lol

Yeah maye we did that earlier before I wielded the reinforcement kit in.

@@phatridesgarage3760 Did you see my edit about Preload? You seem to have none allowed for if that axle is at ride height.

@@Blanchy10 no I didnt see your edit, I saw it in the instructions but it seemed to be saying to do before testing for drivabilty rather than while doing mockup, it didnt mention doing it prior to mockup, it says how to set ride height for mockup without pre loading the coil overs

Sorry mate, I was meaning to get back to you sooner, It just kept slipping my mind to check. I placed the rear coil over mount in such a position as to make the coilover look vertical side-on . The hole in the centre on the mount ( which when in place, is on the inside of the chassis) is 950mm from the outside edge of the rear crossmember to the centre of the hole ( tape held in a straight line.) I just hooked my tape measure onto the rear cross member and measured forwards. This seems to look correct and the curved tabs on the bracket also seem to match the contour of the underside of the chassis. When I followed the instructions on the Ridetech sheet it didnt seem to make sense and the bracket didnt seem to fit the curvature either. This made sense for me. Hope for you too

yeah definitely thanks mate

Not much mate, just waiting for the Engineer to get in touch with me

@@phatridesgarage3760 👍

And where's the missing hardware!?😡

haha beats me, but I guess if your working in one of those places, and take 1 or 2 parts from each kit , before long you would have a full system

I wouldnt waste my time mate, sure it would be ignored

Cheers mate, yes your right it would be closer if following the curve, in fact I just checked and its almost spot on the rear of where i have the bracket now, so that has to be it. Found it too hard with a measuring tap , but just checked it now with a long flexible plastic ruler so you hit the nail on the head. I was just going by their diagram which showed it straight which has got to be wrong, all 4 links Ive seen have the coil-overs basically vertical, very misleading instructions.

Looks like a great kit. Hard to trust anything that still use feet and inches. 😂 Apologies ahead of time

Inclined to agree. More important to be square to the chassis than it is to be diagonally even. If it was made with lasers and robots you might trust the diagonal dimensions, but hand made that long ago not so much.

well, you know the yanks, they refuse to acknowledge metric still haha

Finishing the coupe is a long process, it is currently waiting for the engineer to run tests before i can go any further, and Im not chopping and changing, i have other builds on the go which need completing also

Yeah , welded it because its what i wanted rather than some self tapers

Take it up with ride tech. This chassis was butchered, nothing was original so I bought this kit from Ridetech , but yes I will have to make other changes if even just for the sake of engineering and passing road worthy

No worries! haha

I'd stay clear of that company for those reasons alone.

Thanks Les, unfortunately I already wielded the mount brackets on, with the shocks vertical, have to see what my engineer thinks of it, but I agree with you and all you said