Traction Bracket installed and test-ed~

Finally after 3 weeks of CNY hassle basle, i manage to squeeze out time to work on my mango this afternoon. First i did was install the traction bracket which already delivered to me before CNY. 

here's two comparison shot, right side i had installed the bracket, as you can see the traction arm is almost as low as my rear disc rotor. 

as the left side which i haven install, it's level with my caliper which is almost level with the chassis when the car is lowered.  

another angle of view~  left 

Right~  

from rear~ left 

right. As you can tell the different of the traction bar's angle. It's 60mm lowered from it's original position on the axle.

As i took it on a test run afterward, directly can tell the axle is not 'hopping' as it use to be when launching the car from stop position or kicking clutch @8000RPM from slow rolling start. And it's more predictable during sideway actions as well. Not as they said it's harder to slide the tail out with traction racket installed. 

Will send a few sample unit to my drifting friends to test out once the foundry start pumping out my production units for me. Will post more review later~ cherrio~ stay tuned. 

AE86 rear Traction bracket~ Beta V1.0 trial production

Finally come back from KL. Really took some time off there and goes around to do some market survey. 

And while i'm away, the wider metal plate i ordered also had arrived. So, i took the material and the drawing and send it to my neighbor. 

And start milling out the desire piece to my bracket. 

 With their 5 horse power mean machine.

 That's carbite steel cutter he's using. slicing through the metal like tou-fu~ wow.

 received it after 5 hours of labour (>_<) that's 40bucks/hour. Do the maths.

 some slight alteration and on it goes. All the holes fit perfectly.

 And finally, it's welded together and a brief comparison with V0.09~ spot any different? 

 And give it a nice red coat to at least protect it from rust. 

All done and with *12.3 lb/in rated allen-key bolt with zinc coated nuts. It had 2 level setting which is 42mm offset and 64mm offsets.

I'll be making 10 sets in the first batch to test the respond. Any one interested can contact me via my contact link.

AE86 rear Traction bracket prototyping~ V.09

When i was in KGC last week, some KE friends approached me and ask if i can made them something which catch-ed my interest. 

A traction bracket which installed under the axle where adjust the traction rod lower to point downward which will  help pushing the axle on the ground during acceleration. 

So after coming home and done some homework later~  i decided to made a prototype first to try on mango. And since i had a spare axle lying around. So i take it as my 'model' to fashion the brackets.

 After much consideration i decided to work it out from 6mm think of steel (which is the thickest metal i had in my factory) for it would take up a lot of stredd during hard cornering/drifting~

 Steps by steps measure out the holes on the axle and precisely drill the hole out to screw on to the axle.

final testing before weld them together with another piece of steel to add strength.  

Finally them become one~ i only use normal arc welding here for my MIG will only be coming in January next year~ so the final products will have stronger bond~ 

finally give my prototype V0.9 a bright RED coat to make it stand out from the dirty old axle~ :P lol~ 

Will do a test report later when i fix mango's axle, yet again~ 

stay tune~ chao~