Thank you guys, many of you have been there from the start showing your support and offering many great ideas :thumb:
Suspension designs have been changed progressively as my car is a development mule. If truth be told I thought my first attempt was perfect and would work just fine however a combination of excess weight or premature fatigue... have meant I've been back to the drawing board more often than I had ever envisaged. I guess that is just part and parcel of taking on something like this.
The main issue is I am trying many new ideas and this induces factors which create problems which you don't consider at conception. Adding 26mm into the length of an LCA for instance, throws up all sorts of issues. This latest design though will be perfect. They have literally just been finished this evening so I will add a few pics of the manufacturing process below.
My apologies is this comes across a bit OTT and I am happy to tone it down a bit if this sort of detail isn't to everyone's taste. I am perhaps just a little sad and a bit too excited with finally having a solution which alleviates all the previous design flaws.
Although these arms are a seriously well designed and overly robust construction for the intended lightweight 911 application, I have gone this route for various reasons:
-All three of the bushes can be replaced if the need ever arises.
-They will offer OEM levels of NVH.
-Extra weight and complexity of design is a compromise in order to achieve greater than OEM durability.
They are a combination of 5 different companies involved to get to this final prototype design. TUV approval to follow :thumb: