The Arms are now fitted. You can see that the basic design is the same, it is just made from thicker material.

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Perhaps the most worrying thing to come out of the test at Brands was the rear suspension. Looking at the pictures you could be forgiven for thinking I had crashed the car into the wall, but I can promise you that is not the case! In simple terms the rear arms are not strong enough. It seems that pushing the car that extra bit, coupled with the extra power and weight of the tuned busa over an R1, has just pushed it over the limit. Below are a couple of pictures of the rear lower suspension arms.

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 Well I promised another update and here it is! The front suspension is now finished, all it needs is a final setup, but I need to reinstall the engine to do that. You can see in the picture below the rocker had to be slightly re profiled due to the adjuster on the damper, but apart from that it all went as planned.

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I have not given up, dont worry, I have just been very busy and not been able to spend much time on the Arachnid, but hopefully I am over the worst, and normal service will resume! Another area that came out of the Brands test was that the car was physically quite hard to steer! It quickly became obvious when we looked at it that the original suspension had a scrub radius of over 5 inchs!!!! So we spent a bit of time redesigning the suspension to sort it all out. We put the figures into our software and have come up with a new arrangement that reduces the scrub radius to effectively nothing. It also allows for longer wishbones, which maintains camber in roll a little better and we have tweaked the roll centres etc etc.

This has meant that  we have had to do some welding, with the obvious issues with painting etc, and cutting of the ally panels. However, I have a plan for the winter to go over all the car and reduce weight, I just want to prove these parts before drawing them up in CAD and get them machined in ally, such as the new rockers.. Below you can see the new upper pickup points and the axis for the rocker.

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