My modified early Spyder chassis

I have been looking at your rear damper setup and realised it would allow me to fit wider wheels. So I showed it to my chassis guru (Graham Hatherway for those who may know him) who said, yes, that would work. However, he then dropped a bombshell by suggesting that I go the whole hog and fit them inboard!

The advantages are, apart from allowing wider wheeels, are less unsprung weight and lighter/smaller dampers. It also removes the compromise of adjusting corner weights via the springs allowing the spring rate to be adjusted without altering corner weights.

I will be looking at this today. As I have yet to buy dampers there is little additional cost involved as I can make most of the parts myself.

Thanks for sowing the seed Rob, I think :slight_smile:

Steve

Steve,
Inboard dampers sounds vey high tech, where would you locate the shocks ?

Rob

Not that complicated Rob :slight_smile: :

They will run behind seats and roll cage and will be enclosed in a removable cover. The remote canisters will be in the boot.

Steve

Steve,

Interesting set-up.
Not sure you will be able to get the the vertical links past the discs / drive shaft and keep the shocks within the confines of the turrets ,or will they be fitted forward of the turrets.?

Rob

Hi Rob

Tie rod is well away from the discs and whole set up sits in front of the turrets. The tie rod will be attached to the bottom front wishbone bolt as this location is not far from the centre of the wishbone chassis mounting points. The tie rod (or whatever it is called) also just slides past the anti-roll bar vertical link :slight_smile:

Steve

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