Monroe Handler

[feeble]

A few more parts machined and fitted together.

The Wilwood hat section and 13" x 1-1/8" Coleman Racing rotor.



Compared to a stock 1-piece Cobra rotor, the 2-piece rotor has about a 1" deeper hat section and lets the Brembo calipers (2000 Cobra R or Focus RS) clear the 45mm offset 17 x 9.5 Cobra R wheels that are designed for a 2005+ Mustang. The higher offset wheel (compared to a regular '95 Cobra R) improves the scrub radius which makes for easier steering with a manual rack. The stud holes weren't quite large enough and had to be oversized to 9/16"

As I mentioned before, the snout on the hub had to be turned to fit inside the center bore on the wheel. Conversely, the snout was too small for the center hole on the rotor hat so I had some aluminum centering rings made up to help keep everything concentric. The hubs are 65 - 66 Mustang V8 drum brake hubs.





And here it is put together with the wheel, Wilwood Pro-Spindle and caliper:





Now that I finally was able to put this all together, I can get the caliper bracket designed:



All of this is a whole lot of silver, I'll probably be making some changes to the colors.



Some of the 3/16" thick laser cut parts for the rear of the frame and suspension brackets for the rear end showed up last weekend. More steel is on the way. Here is a sample of a few:






You can see some of the parts in this screenshot:




Had a heck of a coupon for a 20-ton Harbor Freight press so I picked that up this weekend. I'm going to try to get this modeled up in 3D by next weekend so I can design a tube bender attachment. My garage space is limited so the more multi-functional the equipment is, the better.



On the frame design itself, I widened out the front frame rails 3" compared to a stock Mustang II. I have the room to do so and it allows for more header clearance or wider engines.

Still messing with the upper control arm mounts and haven't really come up with anything else that lets me use the Del-sphere joints and have an adjustable arm. I'm not really liking it too much at this point, but this will probably be it (famous last words!):





I'll continue to plug away at it. "Do a little... often" I've been told.




Thanks for reading!

[LazyMod]

Compared to a stock 1-piece Cobra rotor, the 2-piece rotor has about a 1" deeper hat section and lets the Brembo calipers (2000 Cobra R or Focus RS) clear the 45mm offset 17 x 9.5 Cobra R wheels that are designed for a 2005+ Mustang. The higher offset wheel (compared to a regular '95 Cobra R) improves the scrub radius which makes for easier steering with a manual rack. The stud holes weren't quite large enough and had to be oversized to 9/16"

Hi, sorry if I may be wrong, but wouldn't a higher offset wheel make for more negative scrub? Thereby increasing steering effort? I'm making my wheel decisions right now for my manual rack'd 67 mustang, so if I'm wrong I really need to figure it out!