I am seriously thinking about taking this project on guys, but would like to get an idea of who is interested. These would not be cheap for me to make, but we would be cheaper than others... exspecially if we made a small batch (5-10 sets) rather than a one off set. I would say there would be 40-50 hours in R&D AS I would have to draw these up from scratch from standard uprights/hub.

I would be looking to make the uprights and the hubs from 7075,,, then I think it would be wise to send them off for peening which would increase the strength even more... they would be pretty tough and the weight saving would be quite substantial compared to stock heavy steel uprights.



pic taken from another manufacturer in the States..





Comments , ideas welcome

 

would you need to make two versions??

100 and 114 pcd?

 

Bling!

In what ball park would the pricing be, Chris?

 

Very hard to say at the moment mate... MSI charge 4K!! Maybe 1k


Yes, we would need to make two versions, I would like to say we could make a removeable top to adapt different calipers

 

Although I do understand the costs and time involved to make them. I'll just have to stick with my heavy steel ones.

 

Yep lota work involved in these mate

 

I would interested in them Chris

 

Ok great

 

I would be interested in some, they look brilliant

 

I no you do some great stuff and theses look great even fantastic what garantee do supply that theses will be strong enough

 

firstly 7075 is strong stuff plus it will be certificated to say the billet has been xrayed for any fractors.
These will have to go through quite a bit of testing on actual cars before we can of course sell them on .

 

Well if you need any test pilots I'm here

 

Cool, brought a impreza today so will get them off and drawn up ASAP

 

Hmmmm count me in

 

i would have thought they will need tempering and anodising. would you machine them on 5 axis, probably do it in one op well maybe

 

If you had any idea of loads these would take (possibly OE design specs) they would be not too bad to make - I would want to see some kind of FEA analysis before putting something like this on my car (in reference to the state of the roads!)

 

Yes, they would be made on a 5 axis.

I need to get them drawn up firstly, which will take some time. But now I know there is plently of interest I will start the process soon

we will do plently of testing on track and rally and post results

chris

 

did this ever go a head?

 

Not at the moment i'm afraid. I dont have enough interest at the moment

chris

 

bump!!! lets see if we can make this happen!!!

 

Agreed!

 

News here?

 

Did this go ahead Chris ??

 

First post 2012 no info so far so I doubt it. Plus I've never seen these for sale anywhere.

 

Yeah I seen a couple of company's doing them but at a stupid price
Just wondered if he ever decided to go ahead and make some

 

He cant make simple parts that fit. Let alone somethimg complex like an upright

 

I offered you my RCM ones at a steal price but you said you didn't need them lol

 

Get some photos up of them domino

 

U said they would run with my suspension

 

These have some geo settings built in but can't remember what they are off the top of my head

I also have the gobstopper 1 front and rear subframes and front arms to go with them