Imohr from Brazil

[jmd]

Yes, owdlvr - Agree those are my only questions and will have them blasted when I do my chassis. I have a local race shop that I'd have re-tig / reinforce these parts for me if that's required. For the price, it was totally worth giving it a shot. I've also put a deposit on their "Full track" version of all the a-arms (just the arms/hardware) with all rose/heim joints and hardware but will start with this setup as is for the start of my build.

[owdlvr]

Originally Posted by jmd

Yes, owdlvr - Agree those are my only questions and will have them blasted when I do my chassis. I have a local race shop that I'd have re-tig / reinforce these parts for me if that's required. For the price, it was totally worth giving it a shot. I've also put a deposit on their "Full track" version of all the a-arms (just the arms/hardware) with all rose joints and hardware but will start with this setup as is for the start of my build.

Yup, can't lose with the price.

Having run full rose joints on a street car (my Audi quattro rally car that I drove, fully caged, for years). I would suggest you don't go full rose joint on a car you're going to put miles on. I was replacing the rose joints minimum once a year, usually twice. Roughly 35,000km per year on the car.

The Audi arms we built, and later sold the design to 034 Motorsports:

[jmd]

yeah - that was my instinct - my daily B7S4 is built out with solid mount everything etc. and it beats the car pretty hard. So for this, because I plan for this car to get lots of use was to go "softer" initially and if I didn't like it I could always swap out as the parts are interchangable. Those are sweet arms and nice one on the pattern sale! Love me a rallied out Quattro - pics/vids?

[owdlvr]

So I don't derail the Imhor thread further: https://www.germanlook.net/forums/sh...2197#post92197

[jmd]

That's a lovely build, owdlvr - thanks for the post.

[jmd]

Couple updates - agree again with the review of the welds - will have them all sandblasted during my powder coating process and will have them engineer-reviewed to ensure quality. I've also spoken with the team at iMohr and they are more than willing to remake parts that I'm not satisfied with to ensure a good experience. I've now gone through mock-up on the chassis and have learned of some differences between the Brazilian and US pans that will require some edits/modifications to both my chassis and the suspension itself. Was anticipated so I'm not "shocked" by the differences. The 2 key differences that require mods are that the front beam standoffs have a steeper angle on the Brazilian cars and so I'll need to adjust an aspect of the front plates for the front suspension (I've provided iMohr and they're updating the design to accommodate US customers based on this feedback and you can see the bit thats cut and tilted between the framehead bolts - I'll just cut the welds and bend them back to flat). And the rear - torsion bar mount they designed for uses a cross brace that's not found on the US cars and so a Bracket will be required to be welded to the rear tornsion bar to support the rear arm mounts.

Here are some shots - ignore the filthy garage, I just wanted to play with my new parts, not do chores.

Front Suspension


Rear Suspension


This is the bottom of the brazilian Pan that shows where the rear suspension is supposed to connect to

[wouter1303]

Originally Posted by jmd

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This is the bottom of the brazilian Pan that shows where the rear suspension is supposed to connect to

Any updates?

[LLVWGL]

Originally Posted by wouter1303

Any updates?

Neat stuff... from a geometry standpoint what is the primary benefit... I think a trailing arm moves in an Arc lengthwise and relative to camber... is there a point at which the camber change is too aggressive/small that this remedies?

[DORIGTT]

Looks great!

[owdlvr]

These photos are NOT helping my budget "keep it stockish" plans for the '75 beetle :P

[jmd]

telling you man, you can balance both sides of the line by buying my old suspension kit! Make an offer!

#sorrynotsorry!

[owdlvr]

#wellplayed

[Hoghead]

My Imohr "Top" front suspension that used fabricated, dropped spindles, just arrived this week. The welds while not bad looking are not beautiful stacked dimes.

I did not ask about a front sway bar, and at this point do not even know if one is needed.
JMD - is that a sway bar mount on the front of your forward plate and bushing in the top a-arm?

The 350lb front springs seem a bit stiff, even with the 3 lower mounts to vary the lever ratio??
Already changed to QA1 shocks and now thinking about spring rates and asked in a post about corner weights
https://www.germanlook.net/forums/sh...ad.php?t=11998

I now need to make some front hubs as foolishly did not order from Imohr with the IFS. Wheels and brakes are 996
Anyone have a hub drawing?