It's neither I used a lace curtain from local spotlight,
Just a design I liked so painted it to make it look a bit different
Volvo 740 Turbo Project
10 days later
Sat the engine in the car so I can mock up where the exhaust manifold and new inlet will sit, plenty of room lucky enough
I have also put the car on stands so can see what travel I have for the diff an how much I have to tub it to have it sit where I'm happy with
Nearly completely stripped out the rear which will all be cut out so I can make new wheel tubs as well as going to be running a new chassis from a hilux so I can run a four link and possibly Watts link for air suspension
2000 hilux hilux rear section of chassis is what I will be modifying to fit under the rear of the wagon
That's fairly ambitious... Are you planning on getting it registered? Probably worth talking to an engineer before you take an angle grinder to the rear end.
At this point I'm using the chassis but not 100% depends on if I can get it to a low enough point I'm happy with and I've already been taking to an engineerer throughout the build so everything that is getting done is done with an engineerer knowing every step
I feel like it's lots of work for not much gain.
A Hilux rear end is not exactly sophisticated and would still need a decent sized notch to get it sitting on the sills.
What's the current limit of the rear end? Have you taken the springs out to see how low you could get it?
I have taken the rear springs, bump stops and shocks out it does sit pretty low but like I said I'm not 100% sure if going to use chassis or not I'm jsut weighing up ideas for the moment,
I don't really ahve an idea excstly what km doing just yet in mensing what direction its all up in the air but I'd like to do something out there different
Yeah not trying to shoot you down but it's a lot of work if your still planning to keep the factory diff. Usually you run into trouble with engineering if you change the factory suspension pickup points, even more issues if you chop the rear off a monocoque chassis, and there's plenty of fab work with the bag setup and raising the tunnel if you want to be able to drive it slammed.
Some mini tubs and raising the floor if the diff hat is the first thing that hits would get you pretty low
Nah that's cool I completely understand what your saying its a shit ton of work it would be great to do it I just had the chassis an thouggt might us it but your right if the measurements and engineering says otherwise I'll probably end up tubbing it an raising the floor but we will see its all a learning curve right now and I do have a set of air cans laying around I might use
I did look at a supra rear cradle @Ex850R as have seen them done before but they want too much money for them at the moment everyone thinks there parts are worth triple amount so that's a no go for me
That is the lowest point with no springs and no shocks
Yeah that's nowhere near low enough!
thats with the front still at stock height so when the fronts down itll come back up a fair bit id like to have the guard atleast over the rim when the fronts down and got to see how much room i have for the trailering arm anyways i think its hitting the floor under rear seats
Lowering the front does not raise the rear and vice versa
either way it needs to be lower so going to see what i can do to make some space