Re: the ongoing saga of my non-fitting panhard.
Many Thanks to Phil E. who replied with how to make the
parking brake continue to work w/ the panhard
installed. Ironically enough, Phil quoted almost
exactly what the guy @ Winner's Circle said when I
mentioned the conflict with the parking brake; "It's a
race car, you dont't NEED a parking brake" Well, yes
and no. I go racing, but Redcar is and always will be
maintained as a street car. That's the beauty of it,
and also why I want my parking brake.
But back to the non-fitting Panhard; After
carefully measuring all I could, I got on the phone
this morning with a tech-supportish guy at Winner's
Circle who according to whatever info he had on his end
of the phone, told me the bar should fit my car. But it
doesn't.
Now, before someone accuses me of trying to
install it backwards, or upside down or anything, I'll
tell you yes, I AM the guy who once spent quite a bit
of time attempting to install a VW generator stand on
90 degrees from how it should be, but I have learned
the err in my ways, and I feel reasonably confident in
saying I know how this thing should go on. And it
doesn't fit.
I won't try to ASCII-art it, but I'll try to
explain it briefly; If the mount is installed using the
gas-tank mounting bolts as indicated, the bar is then
about 2" too wide for the car, going right past the
rear spring mount that it's supposed to bolt to. In
addition, the mount is supposed to be pre-drilled to
accept the existing gas-tank mount studs, but on my car
on of the studs hits the mount nowhere near a hole.
Inversely, if the bar is bolted to the spring perch and
then the opposite end attached to the mount, the mount
must be installed several inches over from where it
indicates, and NONE of the pre-drilled mounting holes
line up with the gas-tank mount studs.
Any experience with this/sage advice appreciated.
I'll keep you posted-
dstone@sc9.intel.com
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