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Re: rear coilover brackets for midas gold

Postby b1zbaz » Tue Mar 29, 2011 6:36 pm

if i can get the time to finish the car off by stoneleigh i will be very happy but its not looking good have to work more than ever at the moment i have not got a great deal left to do really its just like a giant jigsaw plus the rear coilovers are expensive when is stoneleigh
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Re: rear coilover brackets for midas gold

Postby manifold » Tue Mar 29, 2011 6:37 pm

Its usually first bank holiday in may
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Re: rear coilover brackets for midas gold

Postby b1zbaz » Tue Mar 29, 2011 6:38 pm

mines polished underneath dont worry im hanging my head in shame
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Re: rear coilover brackets for midas gold

Postby Stuart » Tue Mar 29, 2011 6:40 pm

manifold wrote:are you going to polish it underneath too? ;)


Already polished :roll: I'm mad :shock:

Come on David don't let the side down, get the polish out :P
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Re: rear coilover brackets for midas gold

Postby manifold » Tue Mar 29, 2011 6:49 pm

you must be kidding lol.

Reason I went for Ti was so that I dont need to clean it ;)
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Re: rear coilover brackets for midas gold

Postby b1zbaz » Tue Mar 29, 2011 6:54 pm

im going to get the same for mine eventually is it alot of work
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Re: rear coilover brackets for midas gold

Postby manifold » Tue Mar 29, 2011 6:59 pm

not so much a lot of work, as a lot of cash. your looking at around 1k for a rear subframe assembly and radius arms.

problem doing it yourself is finding someone who can work with Ti. You need the right tooling and a welder who specialises in Ti as it needs welding in a purged environment. This is because it burns in air under heat. A bit like magnesium does.
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Re: rear coilover brackets for midas gold

Postby b1zbaz » Tue Mar 29, 2011 8:10 pm

i found some on a thread ready made will they need welding if so i doubt i will be able to go down that route
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Re: rear coilover brackets for midas gold

Postby Stuart » Tue Mar 29, 2011 8:11 pm

b1zbaz wrote:i found some on a thread ready made will they need welding if so i doubt i will be able to go down that route


ready made what? Ti radius arms?
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Re: rear coilover brackets for midas gold

Postby manifold » Tue Mar 29, 2011 8:20 pm

They can be bought, but you would have to order them. I didnt do any welding.

I designed the outline of the rear arms and subframe, using some ideas already around...... Drew it up and Carl Austin made it for me.
Well actually I also took a cut down subframe and a metro radius arm as reference points for the design too.

Not sure, but Carl might have made some jigs.
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