Rear Suspension & Hubs

I've started with the rear suspension while waiting for other parts to arrive, however I had a few problems from the start. I could work out if the chassis was different due the S2000 diff or the wishbones where incorrectly made.

As you can see I couldn't even fit the aluminium spaces which were supplied for the front rose joint but this wasn't the real issue.

 

The real issue came when trying to fit the spaces for the rear rose joint. 

 

As you can see there was +/- 4mm gap between the rose joint and space which prevented me from fitting the inner spacer on the other side of the rose joint.

 

After a few phone calls to Marc at MNR things were explained and I found out I need to de-burr the spacers.

 

 Once they were de-burred I was able to fit both spacers on ether side of the rose joints as the burrs almost added 1mm on each side.

 

 

 

Marc also explained the wishbones tend to pull in a bit during the welding, I was quite surprised how easy it was stretch them open enough to fit the inner spacers. (This can be done by bolting the front in and just using the one hand to stretch the wishbone to fit).

 

 

The other thing to note is that the top wishbone front bolt and washer for the rear wishbones requires filing down a bit to make it fit correctly, below you can see the bolt cannot go in all the way.

 

 

 

  As you can see you only need to file the washer and bolt down very slightly, the filled area is on the right.

You'll notice the top of the bolt only required about 1mm to be taken off.

 

 

As I am using the 100mm Lobro CV joints I had to file the hole in the rear hub bigger to accommodate the bearing carriers as it uses the 68mm bearings.

However after this I soon found out the Lobro stub axel didn't fit in the hubs.

 

 

As you notice the stub axel need to drop in another 20mm into the hub but the sides of the hub in preventing this.

 

 

After another call to MNR and explaining the issue with photos, I was informed that I had the incorrect hubs and as the computer which had these drawing on crashed a few weeks ago causing them to lose the drawing this would take a few weeks to replace. 

 

I have now received the new hub carriers, you can see the difference between them. The side plate is thicker and has the cut out for the stub axle

 

 

The hubs built and ready to be installed.

 

 

 

The hub carrier installed.

I've installed the CV joints now and measured the length required for the drive shafts, which I will now send to back MNR to make them the required length. Each shaft requires +/- 40 mm extra in length.