<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi MIke,<div class="">Respect goes both ways. You and many others have much more autocross and racing experience than I’ll ever accumulate and you all sharing your insights helps me figure out what it is I should be trying to do.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class="">Theo<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 1, 2021, at 6:30 PM, Michael Wood <<a href="mailto:mwood24020@aol.com" class="">mwood24020@aol.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class="">Love it! I have so much respect for you guys (like my mentor, Tom) who can take ideas and shape them in metal. </div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class="">What I'd really like to see is someone build a tubular, double A-arm bolt in solution. I can do the math, but I sure as hell can't do the heavy lifting lol<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">-----Original Message-----<br class="">From: Theo Smit <<a href="mailto:tsmit@shaw.ca" class="">tsmit@shaw.ca</a>><br class="">To: Michael Wood <<a href="mailto:mwood24020@aol.com" class="">mwood24020@aol.com</a>><br class="">Cc: Gary <<a href="mailto:garywinblad@comcast.net" class="">garywinblad@comcast.net</a>>; Lance Beauchamp <<a href="mailto:blance598@gmail.com" class="">blance598@gmail.com</a>>; tigers <<a href="mailto:tigers@autox.team.net" class="">tigers@autox.team.net</a>><br class="">Sent: Fri, Oct 1, 2021 2:43 pm<br class="">Subject: Re: [Tigers] Front suspension<br class=""><br class=""></div><div id="yiv5373424094" class=""><div class=""><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class=""><div class="">Hi Mike,</div><div class=""><br clear="none" class=""></div><div class="">In 2001 or so, I figured out that a crash in the way-past had twisted both upper shock towers (in the same direction) and the previous owner(s) had not corrected it.</div><div class=""> I cut off the upper towers and put in coilover mounts, along with new upper control arm mounts. As part of that operation I lowered the inboard upper control arm mounts an inch. I'm also using the Minx spindles, and that keeps the control arm angles in a reasonable range.</div><div class=""><br clear="none" class=""></div><div class="">I reversed the lower fulcrum pins, which shifts the lower control arm forward about a quarter inch, and increases the caster. As part of that, I added bolt-on braces off the rear face of the crossmember so that the rear end of the fulcrum pins are mounted in double shear.</div><div class="">I'm currently also running a quicker Flaming River rack, and the steering effort (with 205/45-16's) is pretty reasonable. </div><div class=""><br clear="none" class=""></div><div class="">I've been pondering re-doing all of this, because what remains of the original crossmember is pretty beat up and had numerous stress cracks that I welded up when I last had it out of the car.</div><div class="">A few years ago I got a hold of an Alpine crossmember so that I could re-start with something that hopefully had led an easier life. To address the issue of insufficient balljoint spacing and spindle/hub rigidity, I'd start with Wilwood or somebody else's Mustang hubs and spindles.</div><div class="">But as with many things, I have not taken this past the ideas stage. Critiques and ideas are welcome.</div><div class=""><br clear="none" class=""></div><div class="">To the question of "why don't you just buy Dale's"... part of my enjoyment of my Tiger is the making of stuff. Sometimes that means the car sits longer than I'd like but that's life.</div><div class=""><br clear="none" class=""></div><div class="">Cheers,</div><div class="">Theo</div><div class=""><br clear="none" class=""></div><hr id="yiv5373424094zwchr" class=""><div class=""><b class="">From: </b>"tigers" <<a href="mailto:tigers@autox.team.net" class="">tigers@autox.team.net</a>><br clear="none" class=""><b class="">To: </b>"Gary" <<a href="mailto:garywinblad@comcast.net" class="">garywinblad@comcast.net</a>>, "Lance Beauchamp" <<a href="mailto:blance598@gmail.com" class="">blance598@gmail.com</a>>, "tigers" <<a href="mailto:tigers@autox.team.net" class="">tigers@autox.team.net</a>><div class="yiv5373424094yqt7580696325" id="yiv5373424094yqtfd00025"><br clear="none" class=""><b class="">Sent: </b>Friday, October 1, 2021 10:37:07 AM<br clear="none" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b>Re: [Tigers] Front suspension<br clear="none" class=""></div></div><div class="yiv5373424094yqt7580696325" id="yiv5373424094yqtfd70888"><div class=""><br clear="none" class=""></div><div class=""><div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class=""><snip></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class="">Wonder if anyone has done it?</div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class=""><br clear="none" class=""></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class="">Mike</div></div><br clear="none" class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></body></html>