once you've sourced some good dry subframes what is actually involved in doing the swap? just get the rubber cones...and then install? or is it more complex than this?

Nah, postage to Canada would be a killer but be reassured I will gladly take your displacers and your wet subframes I need some for my deluxe which will be going back to wet suspension sometime in the distant future

Hey, no fair I claimed em first!

I can drive to Brisbane and pick them up too, so you won't even need to put them in a box!!

Yes, the swap is fairly straight forward, more so if you swap a complete built dry frame in for the wet one at each end.

Don't forget to rebuild the suspension, and get the subframes powdercoated etc. while the dry subframes are out of the car. You will be kicking yourself later if you don't.

Cheers
matt

Um how soon do you need them ?

My deluxe has dry subframes which I won't be needing but they are in the car at the moment but I might swap you for your wet subframes

I haven't had a real hard look at them but they are in working order should hopefully be coming out a bit before Christmas when I'm home and can work on it.

They are in Armidale (closer to Brissy than Canberra could meet you half way )

would you accept money for them instead?

not too keen on selling my wet subframes before i know its NOT the way i wanna go...

if you want i can get the rail company to pick them up from your house and have them freighted up here...shouldnt cost more than $50 or so to do that,

Nah, I don't want to give away the drys until I know I can get some wet subframes and displacers.


with the work that will be involved with reconditioning one or the other I would get a drive or ride in both and make your decision, but that's just what I'd do




Railway doesn't go further north than Armidale, Stupid really it there they just don't use it

You can use wet subframes, wet top arms with a dry conversion, no problem. We run Barney like this.

Hydro top arms will stiffen the front end a bit but it helps the handling. Lots of racers run this way.

Justminis up in Cairns says he has used wet rear arms too.

FFS use decent shocks though. Barney had crappy old Monroes on, I just swapped them out for new Konis and there is absolutely no comparison. It goes round corners now... nearly as well as my modded hydro....

Top arms are the front suspension arms that carry the top ball joint.
Very little dimensional difference between hydro ones and the dry type really.

There's a bottom arm too, but that's not it...