Patrick -

I did something similar with a DIY CNC group a few years back.  It was more of a "open source Design"  effort. 
Guess because I jumped in with both feet and  offered a number of ideas, concepts and planning precepts - I got "voluen-told"  (new age term for "volunteered") to lead the effort. 
I think you have a great idea, and I'm happy to participate .  I suggest you'd make a great leader for it with your IT experience. How would you like to approach it - online as part of the forum, a set of separate sub-threads - Like Planning Your IRS,  Design Considerations, Software Aids and Resources, Hardware Alternatives, Installation, Testing/Drive and Performance, etc?

Daze is the "mufta" for this forum, and maybe he could break out a separate thread?

-- Or Maybe just create as we go, but include in theThread Title - the appropriate category (my examples above) as first line --- then someone could search on the prefix  and get all the info they need at once.   Keeps the forum flowing and allows for a "library" for later use as you mentioned.
There I go again, I type too much -- even though I only use  2 fingers!


BTW - where in AUS is home?  I spent most of my time (2 years)  in QLD.  Cairns, Bundy, GB Reef, then went over the top and left via Darwin. 


Cheers - Jim

Last edited by phantomjock (12/19/2012 4:57 pm)

phantomjock wrote:

Patrick -

I did something similar with a DIY CNC group a few years back.  It was more of a "open source Design"  effort. 
Guess because I jumped in with both feet and  offered a number of ideas, concepts and planning precepts - I got "voluen-told"  (new age term for "volunteered") to lead the effort. 
I think you have a great idea, and I'm happy to participate .  I suggest you'd make a great leader for it with your IT experience. How would you like to approach it - online as part of the forum, a set of separate sub-threads - Like Planning Your IRS,  Design Considerations, Software Aids and Resources, Hardware Alternatives, Installation, Testing/Drive and Performance, etc?

Daze is the "mufta" for this forum, and maybe he could break out a separate thread?

-- Or Maybe just create as we go, but include in theThread Title - the appropriate category (my examples above) as first line --- then someone could search on the prefix  and get all the info they need at once.   Keeps the forum flowing and allows for a "library" for later use as you mentioned.
There I go again, I type too much -- even though I only use  2 fingers!


BTW - where in AUS is home?  I spent most of my time (2 years)  in QLD.  Cairns, Bundy, GB Reef, then went over the top and left via Darwin. 


Cheers - Jim

Hi Jim,

Great to hear from you. firstly Jim, I'm from Melbourne.

And secondly great to have you on board.

My thoughts about submitting  contributions is that we could do it with a few threads.

The idea would be to firstly break up the project into different assemblies, request contributions  for the assembly, vote on the submissions and "lock in" the assembly into the design.

Then the real work starts,  design , fabrication.

What do you think?


Patrick

Without micro-managing anyone's work effort, I don't know that we can really provide anything but guidance even with more specific and detailed information.

Like most IT decisions/projects, the best information can be put out there, but the implementation is still an exercise left up to the reader/user/builder...

So many variables. Take my situation, I'm very space limited. On top of that there are so many designs, unique IRS designs. I'm not saying it couldn't be done. The base line would have to always start with the IRS Carrier unit itself. Needed to drill down on specifications. IRS Unit/Chassis Dimensions/Use, Street, Race, Show, Etc.../????.

I understand where your going with this. It's taken some time to understand the whys. For example just moving the brakes inboard and how it effects geometry needs or wants. Wow! Everything is so purposeful and that's what a newbie may have a hard time grasping. I still find my knowledge still limited.

An example I ran across at Club Cobra. A guy bought an already built car. After the purchase he began to notice under hard acceleration the rear would squat hard. So hard the tires rubbed the body. When he posted pictures of the car. He had a Corvette C4 IRS, which uses two trailing links. Well the original builder randomly mounted both links below the halfshaft centerline. It was the easiest location. Many posters noticed this would create squat and not anti-squat or neutral, nowhere near an OEM position. Now to make things worse this owner went to a local car builder who said, hey I can fix this this easily for app.$1,500. Alert! He luckily posted what this builder proposed. Yes he was going to do some changes, however his remedy was not going to fix the owners problem. There are builders that have the ability to build yes, but generally they take suspension parts from one vehicle and place parts onto another, hopefully in the same position from where it came from typically. When a person starts moving things/pickup points lookout! The owner realized the real problem, then took it upon himself and friends plus Club Cobra guys to do it himself. This so called builder was clueless.

Ralphy

Last edited by Ralphy (12/21/2012 5:48 am)