Body Alignment Question
Discussion
Hi Guys,
My build had a body prefit last year by the factory, but not much has happened until recently as I had no garage.
However, now I have a nice new one, so car in...Cockpit off....chassis lifted onto dolly...ready for stripping the sides to get the tanks in....
...but, when jacking the car up and now I have it on the dolly, I couldn't help noticing that the front wheels foul the front clip slightly on one side (with wheels straight-ahead), and is very close (almost touching) the side pod moulding behind. In fact it is slightly closer on the rt hand side.Any slight turn of the wheels result in fouling.
In addition, although I have not done any proper measurements yet, the impression is that there is a difference, with no margin for adjustment as the pod moulding on the right is almost hard up on both front and rear wheels.
Having never built one of these before I am wondering if there is a small difference in mouldings length, or something more sinsister.
If this is acceptable the next supposition is that on driving there is the possibility that normal suspension travel may bring the tyres in contact with the pod moulding and/or front clip, especially on slight turns?
Is not the tolerance a bit tight?
What have you guys found?
cheers
My build had a body prefit last year by the factory, but not much has happened until recently as I had no garage.
However, now I have a nice new one, so car in...Cockpit off....chassis lifted onto dolly...ready for stripping the sides to get the tanks in....
...but, when jacking the car up and now I have it on the dolly, I couldn't help noticing that the front wheels foul the front clip slightly on one side (with wheels straight-ahead), and is very close (almost touching) the side pod moulding behind. In fact it is slightly closer on the rt hand side.Any slight turn of the wheels result in fouling.
In addition, although I have not done any proper measurements yet, the impression is that there is a difference, with no margin for adjustment as the pod moulding on the right is almost hard up on both front and rear wheels.
Having never built one of these before I am wondering if there is a small difference in mouldings length, or something more sinsister.
If this is acceptable the next supposition is that on driving there is the possibility that normal suspension travel may bring the tyres in contact with the pod moulding and/or front clip, especially on slight turns?
Is not the tolerance a bit tight?
What have you guys found?
cheers
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