Pity this wasn't done when we built it for racing, it might not have been quite so prone to spinning.....but that was mainly oil on the rear left tyre.
I'd asked Tim Duffee if the early cars came with the shock mounts fitted, and it seems that not only were they not fitted, the holes weren't pre-drilled either, and as Tim said "a lot of people got it wrong".
Now this should, of course, be done on a proper jig, or a giant engineering table.
Lacking one, I used the smooth concrete floor of the barn, which measures as totally horizontal and flat.
I used two equal length supports under the rear cross member, which was checked for horizontality. I had two more identical supports under the front end of the sill beams. This is where it could get confusing, as if the sills aren't exactly on level, on the same plane end to end and side to side and diagonally, you need to forget anything on the body as a datum point, and use just the cross member and support the front of the car in the middle, between the ends of the wishbones.
Once it's supported on these three points, measure from the table or floor to establish the correct heights for the tops of the front shock supports, and the same at the back.
In Dolores' case, front left support was about 13mm too high on the shell, and the rear left was 6mm too high, so the left side of the car was 'drooping' and unequally at that.
Pointless messing about with spring platform height if this hasn't been done properly first.
I remember when I first got this car in 1980, the rear end was way too low, to the point it used to eat Rotoflexes due to the massive deflection in the driveshafts.
Dolores on old shock mounts, showing negative camber at the rear, in 1983. I'm unclear as to how this is even possible, given the suspension design, the trailing arm should surely hold the wheel in its original setting, as it's dictated by the cross member and arm pickup points.
I made new rear shock supports, the originals were very weedy looking and corroded. I used the existing holes for the rear supports.....assuming they were pre-drilled by Davrian!
On the question of camber at the front, I assume the way to alter it is to raise or lower the central wishbone pivot points? By lowering them ie spacing the pickup point from the shell, negative camber should be produced.
Nugget, have you noticed this on your car? You do seem to have a lot of negative on the front....judging by this photo at Combe...
...compared with this car, cornering at Llandow...
