where bouts are based

How about some new top wishbones for the MK indy, so give more castor, alot of people are having to bodge the set up to get the required self centering.

The top wishbone in your picture looks a bit tight for shock absorber clearance. Have you put a bottom bracket on and tried them on a chassis?

[Edited on 18/4/06 by Peteff]

First things first. They look nice. Any close ups of the qualty of the welding please?.

As a manufacture I feel there is a hole in the market and you could fill it IMHO.

Standard geometory gives around 2-3 deg castor which isnt enough. The top wishbone needs ofseting by about 24mm to give 6 deg castor. Not the 11mm you get from the book. Many manufactures will do this as a special but require all sorts of info including drawings. And lotts of sucking through teeth and the utter of hourly rate.

So my question is can you do this to other wise standard wishbones ?
and how much for a full set including good quality poly bushes ect please.

I am interested.

Another question is what is your expected turn-around time ?

[Edited on 18/4/06 by big_wasa]

Another obvious angle is to do a front end based on a different donor to the cortina! -
I used mx5 - this gave very good geometry with a std. book chassis (ie roll centre stays put) but there are others to consider, & they all have their pros & cons
ATB
Bob

Wow! Good response!
The bones are going on a book locost chassis this week.

The clearance for the coilover is tight but it should work though the coilover will be flatter than book. We have not set the coilover brackets until we have them on the chassis.

We will be getting plates laser cut and don't intend to offer them for sale until we have stock, the interest here will detrmine the batch size.

The bones are built on jigs derived from the locost/ McSorely drawings if there is demand for other dimensions we will need to build appropriate jigs.

The bones are TIG welded, check out the attached enlarged image for quality, I will take some better pictures when we have proved the prototypes.

We haven't set prices yet, as promised they will be for sale here first so we will post in the relevant section once we have Registered Trader status and have some stock to sell!

Nighthawk
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These look very nice, is this you??

Nighthawk Components
Elbe Street
Edinburgh, EH6 7BW
UK

[Edited on 18/4/06 by SeaBass]

slightly modified photo for clarity. Looks nice.

Putting the shocker at flatter angle isn't the best solution as the more vertical it is the better.

Have you though about rose jointing just the top one?

That should give you better clearance for the shocker as the V would be bigger and using rose joints inside standard top brackets will give you loads of adjustability for castor by spacing with washers.

Also, bear in mind that some folk use the 2.5 id shocks and spings as well as the 1.9 id ones.

Sorry if I sound negative.

Apart from that, design and strength look good.

What wall thickeness is the steel?

Pat...

Sea Bass,

Guess you went to hacker school! it is amazing what Whois turns up! sadly this is a registration address for the website, we are sorting out our business address at the moment and it will be available on the website as soon as this is done.

Nighthawk

Caber is currently snagging a couple of issues at the front of his chassis, turnaround time for anyone wanting to obtain a set front bones would be a week or so if our current jigs are suitable for your build, other exotics or dimensions would add a couple of days to allow for the manufacture of new Jigs.
regards
Shug.