How difficult is it to airbag a Mcpherson strut??

[Dez]

I agree with robin, dan, matt and everyone else who's said it. What you've done is just plain wrong, and with the forces going on its only matter of time before it breaks.

Where will it break? As an engineer my money would be on the stepped shoulder at the bottom of the thread, its a natural stress riser, especially when its got that plate bolted to it to focus the load.
What will that mean? Total loss of all steering and braking control of the vehicle, plus an abrupt loss of ride height. If you're really lucky it'll happen at slow speed and you won't hit anyone or anything. Or, it could go the other way.....

Either way, it proves the point that just cos you can weld and fab it doesn't necessarily mean you know what you're doing when it comes to automotive engineering.

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Emm.
Back on topic a bit.
The bottom plate to bolt to the bag?
Would it need to be fixed?
Cos if not a lad could set up the driving height a lot easier.
If it can just sit like a spring on the bottom adjuster.
P.s. How's the pick-up coming Dez?

[Dez]

Apr 7, 2014 22:31:06 GMT @quickrack1 said:

Emm.
Back on topic a bit.
The bottom plate to bolt to the bag?
Would it need to be fixed?
Cos if not a lad could set up the driving height a lot easier.
If it can just sit like a spring on the bottom adjuster.
P.s. How's the pick-up coming Dez?

Not necessarily. With twinwall bags it don't need to be airtight, its merely a locator for the bottom end of the bag. I've seen a pretty good setup where a guy made up a collar that was a press fit to the coilover adjuster ring that then attached to the bag.

Supposed to be on the road within about a month- we'll see!

[stealthstylz]

Any developments on this Strada?

[Midland Performance & Retro]

Apr 6, 2014 17:18:27 GMT stealthstylz said:

If you show him this:



He basically needs to recreate that, but obviously with the bearing/housing in the centre.

You may find it will drop lower when that's sorted, as at the moment when the bag is at full drop there's going to be some serious misalignment trying to happen.

It's something to do with the angle and the nature of the Caddy front suspension that's got to be overcome apparently. I'm no suspension expert so can only post updated photos etc as they happen. But the set up that's on is the third update and he's working on the fourth at present and something else is in the process of being machined, so I'll keep you posted. The whole set up on that van has been built from scratch and has been constantly changed from day one with trial, error and improvement. He's also working on a new set up at the rear and a new rear axle to allow an extra 45mm drop at the rear.

I will point out that none of this is offered or available to customers YET and won't be until we're happy with everything and it's also been proven to stand the test of time. Aside for the top mount there's probably 7 or 8 other things that need addressing first. Mainly finer details, but still things that need sorting.

For now, any customer vehicles are fitted with off-the-shelf front bag and damper set ups as per this kit on this Caddy which was in last week.

 



As for the Beetle mentioned, here are the pics. I got my wires crossed with this one though, it's running coilovers. The Beetle for air is another one coming in next month.

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2 nice machines!