Just doing more ?get to know you ?with the car and I would appreciate some more experienced eyes on what I?m seeing here.
I am obviously missing a brake caliper on the driver side, but to my inexperience eyeseverything else here looks like it should. Everything, to be clear, will need to be serviced and cleaned up but it looks like a stock set up from the schematics that I?ve looked at. Yes/no/maybe?
It all looks pretty good. The wishbones look straight and the dampers look like they have been changed recently. Perhaps the discs/rotors have enough material to just be skimmed.
You don’t want to see what the suspension/undercarriage looks like on British Elan’s that have seen several years hard winter use …we salt our roads.
Looks about right to me. Here is a picture of one of mine going back together. I took lots of pics pulling it apart and putting it back together - there is a thread on my suspension build somewhere here with some of them, but if you run into something and want a visual send me a note and I’ll see if I captured the view you’re looking for.
I cannot really help, but perhaps you can help me. Your spring damper assemblies have shrouds on the outside of the springs at the top. With my car (Lotus replacement chassis) the gap in the chassis suspension turrets is smaller than the outside diameter of the shroud, I had to remove the shroud to fit the spring to the chassis. Do your cars have original or replacement chassis?
Interesting! I fit the spring covers to my cars as it helps keep the spring centralised and stops it rubbing on the damper tube. In honesty I don’t fit them, Ian Gardiner from IG Racing does, in my opinion he’s the go to man for damper rebuilds.