need help with lowing my kit

[xlr8r_boy]

Hi guys , i have gone thru all the write ups for lowering a kit and i have mocked up what i should do with my kit but i just cant get my head wraped around this.. the kit is a 90 prelude fujimi kit and i have scanned in the suspention assembly for u guys to help me ..

thanks fella's



if some one could show me where to cut it would be greatly apriciated

-paul

[MPWR]

Good question, nice diagrams! Makes it much easier to work with.

The suspension design for this kit is different enough from most kits that how-to's you've come across are likely to be nearly useless.

The best way to lower this kit are to make the uprights (parts B13, B14, C8, C9) sit higher on the chassis.

B13 and B14 are held in place by B32 and B23. If you put spacers cut from sheet styrene atop the 'wings' that support B13 & 14, the uprights will sit highter. (You will have to drill out the same holes in the spacers as on the wings, to take the pins on B13 & 14). Once this modification is done on B32, a similar modification must be made to B23, to allow the uprights to sit higher in it, too. B23 passes through cutouts in the wheel arches on the chassis- it may be possible to file the arch cutouts a bit higher so that B23 will sit higher on the chassis- it needs to be raised by the same height as the thickness of the spacers used on B32.

Make sense? If you can do that for the front suspension, you should be able to figure out how to do the same thing in the rear.

[energon]

Personally this is probably what I would do. Or at least attempt to do.

[rsxse240]

Looks like you could just take the spindles flip them upside down, then put them on the opposite side of the car. I may be wrong, I tend to be from time to time.

since this seems to be a super low detailed chassis, why not just build some "axles" out of a coat hanger, or some sort of wire, and just build some bulk heads with holes where they need to be to get the axles as high on the chassis as you need to get the car where you want it.

[energon]

Actually, just fliping them and reverseing them might be a REALLY good idea! Try that before you do any cutting. I think rsxse240 might be onto something there, that's so simple it just might work and I'm kicking myself for not thinking of it.

[xlr8r_boy]

yeah i have been lookin into that but ther is a problem .. wen i flip them upside down the steering mech doesnt line up .. for it will give me a chance to open up the hood .. its been a while since i have done a kit but i used to build them in highschool when i was younger.