Hi Guys, Thanks for all the interest!
I’ll try and cover as much of the stuff above as I can remember. If I’ve missed anything please feel free to give me ring!
Our kit bolts on to your chassis, replacing the beam, steering box and all associated linkages.
Comes complete to the spindles and includes all the mounting plates, wishbones, rack and pinion steering, column support brackets, bevel box, universal jointed link to rack and a few bolts.
All the wear parts are sourced from Volkswagens parts bin, so that spares should be readily available for many years to come. The wishbone bushes are an up rated Ford item which should also be available in the future.
The ride quality, steering sharpness and lightness are all outstanding! It blows my mind whenever I drive ours, it is so different to what was there before! The ride quality is the same at whatever height you choose! You are more than welcome to test our Bus.
Speaking of which, we attended Vanwest in Weston Super Mare last weekend. A little round trip of 420 miles towing a trailer full of kit!
NOTE: we did not trailer our Bus to the Show and try to sell products we don’t use.
It is adjustable for height using two methods. The first is a coarse adjustment on the 4 bolt holes. This give 3â€, 4â€, 5â€, and 6†drop. Then there is approx. 1.5†on the coilover which makes a possible total of 7.5â€! Fine adjustment can then be carried out using the coilover.
Stiffness is adjusted as our other coilovers using the knob at the bottom.
Camber is adjusted using the original camber nut we are all used to.
Caster is adjusted using shims to move the relative positions of the top and bottom wishbones. If it’s good enough for Lotus it’s good enough for me!
Toe is adjusted using the track rods as normal.
Using the coarse adjustment allows the wishbones to be kept at their optimum angles over a wider range of heights.
The track is 40mm narrower than a Bay and 24mm narrower than the Split, that was done so that by the time our adaptors are fitted if you want wide 5 wheels the track would be stock on a Split.
No narrower options are available as the wishbones would be too short to give good geometry control.
We use modified late Bay spindles so that disc brakes are available to all at reasonable cost (we could do it for £1800.00 for a Bay Kit with Late Bay Brakes Complete). Upgrades can still be used, from mild to wild as well as the wide variety of wheel and tyre combinations that are in use today.
We have already supplied customers (one for 944 brakes the other to keep his drums!) with early spindles and we can do this if you need them, however, it is difficult to get hold of them, we have to modify them in a few areas (not just the ball joint position) to make them fit and it is a pain in the arse! That’s why we ask you to supply them! The extra charge for doing this is £175.00.
We will not supply any kit without spindles ‘cos you think you can get it done cheaper. It’s our warrantee that you are messing with.
And that brings us onto the price…. There are probably many ‘experts’ that could do it for less, especially as we have now shown them how it’s done! However, they have no warrantee to give or after sales backup or even spare parts to provide, let alone the insurance required to design products.
Sales so far suggest our price to be spot on, so it’s £1500.00 for the Bay and £1650.00 for the Split Screen Based kit. The difference is that we supply a complete new column for the Split Screen Bus, and yes there is a hole down the column so you can use the Horn!
Whew! I think that’s it?
I have added some pics below too! bloody hell this is hard work! its taken all morning!
Hope that’s all good for you and look forward to speaking to you soon.
Cheers
Simon
Red 9 Design
