The Off-Topic Thread

[kickn5k]

Not small either lol, 83 pages

Seriously I lol'd at that. Some people have too much time on their hands!!

Fish tanks are only good for bartering on KE-70 parts.

[B.L.Z.BUB]

Are coil overs legal on a street car or do they just need to be plated?

[ke70dave]

i think it all comes unstuck with the clause that goes something like "you arent allowed to weld anythign suspension related"

 

and most coilvoers are welded somehow.

 

unless you can find some ADR approved off the shelf items.

[B.L.Z.BUB]

Hmm I thought it had something to do with them being adjustable too. I'm already leaning towards normal struts anyway as itll probably never see a track. But in saying that I want to weld ke70 lower perches onto xt struts... Be hard to tell they aren't stock though. Coil overs on the other hand...

[ke70dave]

the other problem is.

 

how do you run a lowered car, with short stroke shocks, without cutting and welding the shock tube?

 

potentially a grey area. could give an engineer a call.

 

i tried calling a few engineers about it a few yrs ago, didnt get very far.

[towe001]

the other problem is.

 

how do you run a lowered car, with short stroke shocks, without cutting and welding the shock tube?

Spacers in the strut tubes.

The old Garage Dori site had an article on how its done.

"Fitting Corolla AE92 Front Shocks into Corona TT132 or AE86 Struts"

 

By the looks of it the only Garage Dori site now is the forum http://www.garagedori.com/

[ke70dave]

spacers don't really help if you go too low though.

 

i fit ae92 shocks into my ae86 struts, but i cut ~60mm off the strut tube first. then at lowered height the shock sat pretty much exactly in the middle of the stroke.

[B.L.Z.BUB]

I have t3 gland nuts. So shock security isn't an issue.

[ke70dave]

whats a T3 gland nut?

[irokin]

I have t3 gland nuts. So shock security isn't an issue.

 

[B.L.Z.BUB]

whats a T3 gland nut?

 

https://technotoytuning.com/toyota/ae86/advanced-strut-tube-spacers-ae86-corolla

[ke70dave]

ooOOOOoooh thats a cool idea.

 

i suppose the downside is you lose ~60mm of compression.

 

but if you use a decent weight spring i reckon youd never bottom them out.

 

nice product.

[towe001]

But with the spacer like that one you can run the risk of bottoming out

AE92 Inserts into AE86 front struts

 

Edit - so maybe a spacer at the top of the strut and a spacer at the bottom of the strut.

 

And there goes the rest of the arvo of internet for me, my boy wants youtube.

Edited April 19, 2012 by towe001

[rian]

But with the spacer like that one you can run the risk of bottoming out

AE92 Inserts into AE86 front struts

 

Edit - so maybe a spacer at the top of the strut and a spacer at the bottom of the strut.

 

And there goes the rest of the arvo of internet for me, my boy wants youtube.

 

T3 spacer does goes at the top of the strut tube?

 

I don't see why more people don't just cut the strut tube shorter and tap a new thread into the top of the strut for a gland nut? That way you don't have to weld anything, but allows you to use short stroke shocks. There's a fair length of strut tube above the spring perch that could be removed.

 

See the pic, above the spring perch but below the gland nut: all that length could potentially be removed.

[BlueKsev]

"just cut the strut tube shorter and tap a new thread into the top of the strut for a gland nut"

 

I was going to do that for mine, looked into getting the thread taps on the internet and everything, but another look at the strut showed the top of it where it is threaded has been machined out to a slightly larger size, and then had the thread cut. So there is no potential rubbing of the thread onto the shock itself

 

And by then it was going to be far too much work to machine the inside of the strut :/

 

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Edited April 19, 2012 by BlueKsev