Camber plate help

[Knestis]

I'd get back to the DP folks and say, "I have struts with a shaft diameter of [whatever] - can you help?"

Then hire the machinist.

K

[DavidM]

What's the rest of the assembly look like? I don't see how you make the shocks fit the hat without having some sort of "bushing". I'd send them back if the won't work.

David

[Bababooey]

Here it is off their website:

http://designproductsracing.com/images/118.jpg

I told them specifically what shock I had when I ordered. They sell Tokico's so there's no excuse to getting the dimensions wrong. They sent a spacer for the mount so they got it half right. It took a few days to even get an email response the first time. I doubt I'll order anything from them again. I've honestly thought about just selling these at a loss and getting some techno-toy weld ins...I'm not ordering rear plates after this screw up.

This just really pisses me off. I'm trying to get my suspension finished so I can get my car into paint in Jan. A trade school is doing it so it's going to be gone awhile while they work on it. I was hoping to shake it down next year but these vendor problems are a PITA. Someone needs to make an ITS 240 in a box like they have for Spec Miata.........

Now that I think of it, there's a machinist in our car club. Do you think a spacer that would slip over the shock would work instead of a whole new redesign.

[seckerich]

The spring perch should be cleared that much and should sit on the bottom of the slider with the needle bearings. If that is a com 10 bearing in the slider on their website you just need the sleeve to fit your shock. Do you have a picture of the slider you got with your kit?

[pballance]

+1 with what Steve said. You should have had a sleeve for your shock or they should have supplied different hardware.

[joeg]

Good Luck. Like Kirk says, find and hire a machinist!

you need to fit the strut's shaft to both the ID of the slider's sperical ball as well as the upper spring perch immediately below it.

In my situation, that means setting up the strut in a lathe with a centering support end for at least one of the operations. Sometimes you can buy the proper spacer to handle the slider/ sperical issue.

[Greg Amy]

you need to fit the strut's shaft to both the ID of the slider's sperical ball as well as the upper spring perch immediately below it.

Be careful; that's not necessarily the case. You need to ensure that the center of rotation of the spherical and the center of rotation of the upper spring perch are coincidental. If not, then you must have clearance in the top hat. Yes the shaft needs to fit the spherical, but most times you need to clearance the hat.

Draw it out, you'll see what I mean.

GA