bluewhitecoopers1968 wrote:
Chux, no the Minispares coils are no tapered. Yep your Minitec ones are longer and better for a road car in my opinion. More suspension travel and no need for the spacers I had to put behind mine. I bet yours don't fall out with the standard teardrop stops either.
Leroy, mine can be lowered down to the bump stops if I wanted, but as I drive on the road I prefer some movement in the suspension to soak up bumps.
Cheers, so without the spacer it sits a about 20mm or so lower?
do you have a link to where you purchased them? and they are for Hydro or rubber cone sub frames?
joyce1bro wrote:
Leroy-Riding wrote:
Thanks for posting this,
what did you do for added strength now that the suspension load is on the body rather than the sub frame/chassis? this is my only concern with the coil overs. . . its pushing me to lean towards the ruber cone or hydro spring replacements instead.
Thanks
Leroy
Actually left it up to the engineer to sort that out. The engineer is a very well known mini guy here in NZ and has the lightest and fastest race mini so I trust his skills.
This is how he did the rear.
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Looks sturdy enough, Im no structural engineer though. also looks like it would require mods to standard fuel tanks though?
Thanks
Leroy
Well not really. You can get them with offset pins same as gaz and spax coilovers and the standard tanks can pretty much stay there.
Or you go direct which I did and would suggest others did as well.
These are totally rebuildable which I read that gaz and spax were not or didn't really care to.
A lot of people massage the towers (hammer for some extra room) for the rear a little and weld a strengthen ring (almost like a huge thick washer) under the top mount. Which doesn't seem that hard if u ask me.
