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Rear wheel arch
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Gordon
Hesketh-Jones sent in an email saying "Following
Chris Armitage's useful V8NOTE369,
I am fitting rubber bumper 1800 rear springs and MOSS
anti-tramp bars fitted to my chrome bumper MGBGTV8 but
I was disappointed to see that the rear end of the car
is still much lower than the front. This "rear-droop"
is exacerbated because when I fitted the new front cross-member
earlier this year, I also fitted new front springs and
these make the front quite a bit higher than before. I
plan to send the old V8-spec springs off to Brost &
Co for re-tempering, resetting to the softer weight, |
and reshaping to correct the "rear droop", but
need to know what to ask them to do. Do you know if there
is any published information on the height of the back
end, measured from the floor to either the stainless steel
trim strip, or to the bottom of the wheelarch? Or ANYTHING?
If nothing is written anywhere, could I ask you to measure
your car and let me have the details." The measurements
and the two photos above are available as a PDF download.
Document
with photos and dimensions |
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Email
to Gordon Hesketh-Jones from Victor Smith
(21.12.07)
I attach a note of the measurements I have taken on my car which
show the current position on my chrome bumper MGBGTV8. I measured
the distance between the top of the tyre and the underside of
the centre of the wheel arch lip using a spirit level and steel
rule as:
Front = 2.5 inches
Back = 0.0 inches (virtually level)
Check (refer to attached diagram for dimensions):
Rear wheel: 24.0 inches less 11.625 inches = 12.375 inches =
top half of the wheel/tyre uncompressed
Front wheel: 26.25 inches less (11.375 inches plus 12.375 inches)
= 2.5 inches which ties up with my measurement
I have assumed the uncompressed half of the wheel will be the
same front and back = 12.375 inches. I hope this will be of
some help. |
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