Healey Sports Cars

Better picture of upper shock mount and upper control arm mounts we made.
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I don't have good photos of the front caliper mounts. CAD renderings here, maybe Steve can take a few. These are radial mount calipers so the mounts are simple, just angled brackets to line up to the ears on the Healey spindles.
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/30/2024 02:20PM by 3000bn7.

I found a bunch more photos on my phone from texts that came from Steve. Here is a better shot of the rear end than what I posted earlier.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/30/2024 02:25PM by 3000bn7.

This shows the rack and pinion from an MGB that we shortened both the rack section and the steering shaft. This is a new rack which I noticed has a smaller pinion gear then the originals. If it turns out to not feel good, we can always mod a used rack. This shows just the housing shortened, we cut and slid a tube over the existing tube with the holes to be able to plug weld it.
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We also needed to lengthen the tie rods, this shows an added section we made that got welded to the existing tie rod.
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This shows a mockup of the rack position. There is a flat plate the we tacked in place to get the final width of the rack. The goal is the have the upper and lower inner control arm mounts in line with the inner tie rod joint at the end of the rack. As the rack moves, that does change, so like everything in life it is a compromise to a small extent. This is to minimize bump steer, an effect that causes a toe change as the suspension travels.
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A not so great quality picture of the bump steer checking setup.
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Also not so great, shown the final rack mounted. Mounts are hard to see from this angle.
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