Measurements Required

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Hi there fellow S1ers. I wonder if I might ask a favour of one of you. I currently need some measurements off of an S1 Exige, either at standard ride height or one at 100/110 or thereabouts (it matters little, the wheel/tyre combo is more critical here… after an S1 on standard S1 wheels with standard sized tyres).

Basically, if your car is parked on dead flat, level ground, I need the height to two points on the suspension, one front and one rear.

On the rear I need the height to the underside of the toelink mounting boss as indicated here:

And on the front, I need the height to the underside of the small lip on the lower wishbone gusset shown here:

This will allow me to calculate the correct angles relative to the chassis the wishbones will be at at the ride height I’m after and allow me to torque the wishbone pivots up correctly :slight_smile:

Suspension’s on at the rear now, and going back on at the front this weekend hopefully… finally the car will start looking like a car and less like a bathtub! :slight_smile:

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George

When I did mine I made 4 aluminium blocks up for the correct ride heights F & R, dropped the tub on those and then used wheel/ tire to get the wishbone in the right place ?

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Andy,

I could do that, but would rather do it without moving the tub.

All I’m really after is a wheel centre-height at rest, although the measurements to the uprights are better as they’re not as affected by camber settings (everyone’s will be different) as will be measurements to the wheel centre.

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OK !

Mines 16K KM away so cant help there !

Height off garage floor - ride height = block of wood under tyre ?

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George,

If no-one does it beforehand I’ll measure mine tonight.

BTW don’t you have a bracket for the rear toelink inner to put it in double shear?

edit:
Bollocks, forgot. I’ll do it tomorrow afternoon (on a half day!)

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Thanks Mark,

As for the double shear thing, only the Aluminum-upright cars have that. You only get a double-shear bracket to work with the ally uprights… don’t see how you’d be able to make a double-shear arrangement to work with the standard Exige forged uprights.

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George,

I meant on the inner joint.

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Oh, Mark, yeah… don’t worry, the heat shields are off getting powdercoated with cermakrome ceramic barrier at the moment. They willbe installed and the wishbone pivots torqued up next weekend once they’re back :slight_smile:

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Okay measurements.

1st point, it’s not possible to measure to the point on the rear upright as it’s inside the wheel.

So I’ve measured to the same point as the front.

My car is slightly above std rideheight but shouldn’t make much more than a couple of mm difference.

Measuring to the bottom of the gusset on the front is 169mm, and to the top on the rear at 173mm so it’s approx the same front and rear.

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Thanks a million Mark… those figures should do nicely :slight_smile: I’ll be able to torque the wishbones at the right height now, without dropping the car off the stands :slight_smile:

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IT’S A CAR AGAIN!!!

Well… in the sense that I can drop it on the ground and sit in it and make BRRRRRMMMMM noises :slight_smile:

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So when do you get the spanky new ‘K’ back then?? :wink:

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Parts should be shipping back here in the next week or two… then the mammoth reassembly job beginsssss! :slight_smile: