I'm after people's opinions on this bracket that has been made. It's not mine but I want to hear some opinions of what people think to it.

Car is a 968 running 996 suspension. The bracket allows the owner to run the front suspension. I'm 50/50 on if it's a good idea or alternatives that could be done. I am thinking of running 996 suspension on my 944 but due to the engine swap the front of the engine will sit where the steering rack would be.

The guy who has been running this setup has been for a while in Sweden in a race series.

 

Russell Lewis at RSR engineering near bramshott would possibly be the man to speak to. What is the benefit of 996 suspension? The car seems so different to a heavy rear engined 911 but interested as need suspension for mine.

 

Looks very odd to me. The Ackerman angles look wrong and the stress on taper attached to the hub would be a big?

 

Can you tell Ackermann without seeing centre line to diff at rear of the car?

 

The bracket at the steering rack and the tapered spacer at the tie rod end have been done to get the bump steer as he wanted. Since both the bracket and the tapered spacer are both only moving the joint in the vertical plane and not in the horizontal it should matter for the Ackermann.


There is indeed increased stress at the location where the taper connects to the wheel knuckle. That is why they've made a taper and not a straight pin.


I have actually made something similar for my 4x4 Sapph, but I'm not happy yet with how it is done exactly.

 

Marc it's probably fine just looks wrong if you know what I mean.

Don't like the idea of introducing more stress points on a steering system.
Also those shall we say spacers from the hub to the rose joint will have an increased amount of leverage force applied to them.

If the advantages of this suspension is so great over std items then a few mods I guess won't make a huge difference.

 

On the last pic it looks like the compression strut type thing bolts on to some very thin flimsy steel

 

Yes, that does look very thin and bent. I suppose it doesn’t have loading of a driven axle but why not add a lot more strength there?

 

But it does have a lot of force on it when braking. I would make that a lot stronger.

 

3 mm thickness minimum with some gussets.

 

Thanks for the replies guys. I'm currently reading his thread (I've got around two years of posts to keep me going) It's in swedish so taking a bit of time with google translate plugin.

I'm interested to see if he did any further modifications as I do like the idea of this suspension but I don't want to put myself/passengers in danger. Last I saw he's shifted the engine back quite a bit and used a corvette bell housing/torque tube as it moves the engine 400mm further back but requires the bulkhead to be modified heavily. Last post I saw of his engine bay, v8 engine moved back and custom subframe.

 

 

True, I don't think i've heard anyone having one made. Most just put up with it or cut the car about so it has the box at the front.

 

 

http://www.speedhunters.com/2018/07/...d-ls2-porsche/

Porsche box can handle the power, I've been following the work of this guy on FB and apart from damaging a driveshaft at gatebil he didn't mention anything too major with the box.