I took my car up to Damon's Series 900 shop to see if he could fix the fact that my chassis has had twist in it since I bought it. Basically the only way that I could get the wheels to point in the same direction was to have it crab to the right by about 3 or 4 degrees. My theory was that during an accident by the PO that the torque tube was displaced. I also had a more minor problem in that RF strut had more camber in it then the LF.
Within a week of dropping the chassis off at Damon's Series 900 shop in NH, he had it up on the rack...
...and confirmed that the back end is square on!
But... apparently the RF strut tower was at least 1/2" back of where it should be!
Ulp!
In talking with the PO, we determined that he had replaced the sills...
... by brazing them on.
OK, that is certainly
a way to do it, but most likely not the preferred way. It's also unclear how he braced the chassis while he was replacing the sills. We suspect that the chassis sagged when the sills were open. So Damon is pulling the sills off, and then we'll see how the chassis straightens up and then he is going to hopefully put the sills back on with the chassis straight.
If he can't re-use the existing sill, we'll then have to do new sills.
Unfortunately the budget won't allow a full strip and repaint at this time, but Damon's being good to work within the project scope.
In other news
Matt at Eurometrix has told me that my throttle bodies are ready. I'll post some pictures when I get those back. I guess I better get cracking on
putting the transaxle back together!
