Outriggers - are they symmetrical?

[Tobs]

As per the title - currently fabricating and replacing my outriggers, and noticed after cutting one side off it is slightly different length to the other?

I thought they would be symmetrical, however the offside seems to be about 1cm longer than the nearside. Maybe this is just within the tolerances TVR worked to (), although does seem a fair difference. The angles also seems slightly different between sides, (which I suppose makes sense with the difference in lengths of the outer tubes.

Looking a the body, I can't seem to see much of a difference between each side.





Back edge of both outriggers lined up:



Offside is longer by about 1-1.5cm:

[Engineer1949]

very rarely the same my jig is adjustable to allow for tvr measuring.


john

[Tobs]

Engineer1949 said:

very rarely the same my jig is adjustable to allow for tvr measuring.


john

Ahh OK - so I guess they are supposed to be symmetrical, give or take an 1/2 inch or so!!

Makes me wonder how well the outrigger kits you can buy fit - although I suppose most of these replace everything back to the chassis.

[motul1974]

.....they don't always fit that easily!!! The land rover lads doing my welding found them challenging. Lol

[Tobs]

motul1974 said:

.....they don't always fit that easily!!! The land rover lads doing my welding found them challenging. Lol

Yeah with mine as it's not a kit - just fabricating from tube, I think i'll tack weld it all together then put the chassis back into the body to check everything before finally welding it up.. don't want any surprises once its painted and going back in!

[BIG DUNC]

When my chassis came back the first thing I did was to offer it up to the body.

[SILICONEKID 345HP 12.03]

Apparently the jigs were appalling ,my near side rear outright sit s closer to the wheel and tyre than the other side .About 12mms which makes a massive difference of you go for wider time and tyres .