Its good having an engineer about

Does your 480 have tracking-problems? Does your car pull to one side? Or is your steering wheel vibrating? Read the posts in this category to find out what's going on.

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chris1roll
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Its good having an engineer about

Post by chris1roll » Sun Sep 24, 2006 5:52 pm

look what Edds made us three of

Hopefully have finished and fitted pics in the week.
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Post by owen080808 » Sun Sep 24, 2006 9:46 pm

sweet!

i love things that are properly home made like that, looks solid too. respect.
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Post by lee » Mon Sep 25, 2006 1:02 pm

This is almost the same design as mine. Only difference is my adjuster is in the middle
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

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Post by chris1roll » Mon Sep 25, 2006 7:01 pm

owen080808 wrote:sweet!

looks solid too. respect.
Errm, yeah, that steel tubing has a 3mm wall, and took 8 tonnes of pressure to bend, so it won't be flexing in a hurry! 8)
All the universal ones we've seen seem to be made out of mickey mouse metal....
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Post by martinholmesuk » Tue Sep 26, 2006 4:43 pm

I like! Not sure if I can fit one because of all the samco under the bonnet.
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