Kaido Crown

[244Brick]

You can't use a custom alum/steel camber shim. Then, drill the holes out and add extended bolts?

[180roman]

could u not cut and shut ur rear control arms like 20-30mm ?

The Crown rear suspension is the same design IRS as the old Toyota Celica/Supra IRS and one also found on old Nissans/Datsuns.

It looks similar to this, but the Crown has a separate body and frame.



So there is only 1 arm that controls, camber, toe and caster. Most primitive of all IRS setups.

[charlie_91]

could u not cut and shut ur rear control arms like 20-30mm ?

[180roman]

I dig this. I want to see it with the wheels on!! :-D

Thanks

If that's where you plan the wheel to be sitting, will you be radiusing the guards as well?

In terms of low, the plan is to sit the wheels at about the height that the 9s were at, so lip mms from the guard.

I fully slammed it to test out just how long this thing can go. I thought I would have much bigger issues with going low, but this car does it like a champ.

To make the 12s fit I'm looking at doing the following things:
Mildly flare the guards
Massage the tubs for clearance if required
Cut and modify the swing arms to accept demon camber
Reinforce shock mounts to accept coilovers
Remove the old spring mount off the swing arm
Possibly fit custom bump stops
Possibly notch the swing arms to clear rails

So I really don't want to do much guard work, as the idea is to have a pretty stock body allowing me to change to Kyusha Kai style similar to the photo of the 9s.

Most of the modifications will be done to the swing arms because that would allow me to easily change back to stock to clear defects, as they are very strict with chassis modifications over here, but the shock mounts modifications should be pretty subtle and not very noticeable.

[floatingdino]

If that's where you plan the wheel to be sitting, will you be radiusing the guards as well?

[Awful Hero]

I dig this. I want to see it with the wheels on!! :-D

[180roman]

'89 A31 cefiro on SSR period correct meshies which - if i had my hands on an underspoiler will go to the floor.

its pre 90's, and generally cool, :P though its cool if you dont! I will keep digging, I will find one eventually that isnt worth and arm and a leg

EDIT: Also, so down for sharknose; will be magnitudes of cool. WHEN this is finished, im so roadtripping from brisbane just to be in its presence.

PM me about the underspoiler and I'll tell you where, there is a few different ones

gobbling that nine like it's nothing

I guess I will need like 15x9 -30 for the tame Kyusha Kai look once the guards are rolled and flared

I can't wait till this is completed! I doubt there are many builds like this in Melbourne, let alone Australia.

Thanks

oh, and you should of slammed that FG while you where at it

No slamming of the FG will ever happen.... I promised myself that when I bought it...
I need at least 1 sensible daily car that can tow a car trailer to the track.

Not that I've never looked at coilovers/bags and 19s for it....

[EnvyXF]

oh, and you should of slammed that FG while you where at it

[EnvyXF]

I can't wait till this is completed! I doubt there are many builds like this in Melbourne, let alone Australia.

[P78]

gobbling that nine like it's nothing

[180roman]

Gathered up some motivation today to work on the car and thought I have to slam this bitch...

Took out the shocks and tried to push the arms down hoping the spring would fall out, but no luck...

No spring compressors at hand and ragin hard, coz I tried leveraging and etc to try to get them out with no luck.

Was pacing back and forth in the garage trying to figure something out and spotted some tie-down straps.

DIY spring compressors


Still took a fair bit of effort to get the fuckers out.

Proceeded to remove the other side and unbolt the bump stops.

Chucked one 15x12 -75 on the left and a 15x9 -15 on the right, so I could be test fitting both at the same time.

Lowered the car onto some blocks of wood and realised that the car was actually sitting on the jack handle and I can't pull the jack out... And neither can I move the handle to jack it back up...

And I have no other jack anywhere other than possibly a scissor jack....

Lucky enough I got one of the bigger stumps of firewood blocks and jammed a 2x4 under the car standing on the other end using it as a lever to get some weight off the jack.
That gave me enough to start making tiny movements with the jack handle trying to pump it back up. Actually managed to get the car back in the air and had to add some bigger wood blocks under the wheels for test fitting.

Apparently 15x9 -15 are perfect fitment on stock as fuck guards.







Amazing fitment coinscidence




The 15x12 on the other side had a bit more low as the wood blocks were higher and most of the weight was resting on that side.
The resulting low is the spring mount of the swing arm touching the spring mount on the chassis and what seemed like the swing arm touching the chassis rail as well.
But everything else seemed to have cleared fine, even the swaybar.









Easy 9cm of poke



After double checking everything a few time to find if there are any other areas that will need modification to make these wheels fit, I chucked the bump stops back in and put her on stockies to drive her back in the garage.



I'll need to investigate the front fitment next time. So stay tunned

[244Brick]

LOVEsharky noses

[montgomery]

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[AccordEuro]

The underspoiler is something that should only ever be used on the pre-90s cars that are slammed on the ground.

I really don't want them becoming just a "stance" thing, so unless the car you plan to mount one on meets such criteria, I can not reveal my sources.

'89 A31 cefiro on SSR period correct meshies which - if i had my hands on an underspoiler will go to the floor.

its pre 90's, and generally cool, :P though its cool if you dont! I will keep digging, I will find one eventually that isnt worth and arm and a leg

EDIT: Also, so down for sharknose; will be magnitudes of cool. WHEN this is finished, im so roadtripping from brisbane just to be in its presence.

[Anonymoose]

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