Well after seeing the Fit with Cantilever suspension I thought I'd try and build a similar setup in my 92 hatch. I used 1.75 DOM tubing and 2004 CBR 600RR rear shocks, total cost was about $250, built at home in my garage. Its a little stiff for the street but handles really well, I've put about 1500 KMS on it so far.

Here are some pics:




You'll notice in these two pics the pushrods aren't bolted in yet, I took this when I got it home from paint and couldn't wait.









Modified by C1V1C at 12:42 PM 7/12/2007

 

I love it!
Did you do any research on the lengths of the pivot arms?

 

Work Filters are killing me. I will be checking this out as soon as I get home.

 

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Thanks!
Its just a 1:1 ratio, I thought I'd start with that but after testing it for a few 100KMS it seemed to work good so I left it.

 

Looks cool. How much suspension travel does it have?

 

ya, that is really cool looking. Kinda neat to keep the shocks out of the elements too. Do you have a seal of some sort where the pushrod comes through the body?

 

Look for this setup on 90% of the cars in the apperance forum in the upcoming weeks. Looks good.

 

hahahahahha exactly

nice setup but why? There are plenty of good dampers already available and the rear suspensions works well for a road race car, not trying to knoc it just curious as to why the trouble

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I just wanted to try something different. I wanna build a Locost (Lotus Super 7 replica) in the future and I've seen many people use inboard suspension so I thought it would be good practice. Didn't cost much and it didn't take that long to build.
I know there are tons of coilover etc but some people like to build their own stuff, this is the Welding/Fabrication forum you know
I've had about 5 different suspension setups on my car and this handles the best by far, gives it a little oversteer and very easy to control. Also the CBR shocks are Showa, dampening and rebound adjustable. I also threaded the pushrods so its height adjustable too.

 

Curious to see a side profile shot of the car , once again real nice.

 

wow, very seldom i see something on here that i think is really bad ***, but this is. wow.
funny that you chose a honda bike too, haha.

what did the shocks cost you, out of curiosity?

 

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funny that you chose a honda bike too, haha.

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Thanks for the comments.

Shocks were only $100 shipped for 2 on ebay!

 

That's definitely appreciated

What are you basing your data on? as far as it handling the best have you tracked it or are you just going off of driver feel?


<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by C1V1C &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I just wanted to try something different. I wanna build a Locost (Lotus Super 7 replica) in the future and I've seen many people use inboard suspension so I thought it would be good practice. Didn't cost much and it didn't take that long to build.
I know there are tons of coilover etc but some people like to build their own stuff, this is the Welding/Fabrication forum you know
I've had about 5 different suspension setups on my car and this handles the best by far, gives it a little oversteer and very easy to control. Also the CBR shocks are Showa, dampening and rebound adjustable. I also threaded the pushrods so its height adjustable too.</TD></TR></TABLE>

 

That's neat. Nice job, so clean now under there.
The shocks do look great inside, and they will see so much less grime etc. as mentioned this way.

 

heres a pic of the car




I tracked the car with tanabe coilovers and Koni's with various spring rates, haven't tracked the new suspension yet, so for now it's just driver feel, and it feels good

 

eww your intake is on the wrong side of your engine!!

 

Crazy Kanuks

 

So with it being a 1:1 ratio, your shock and spring are the actual effective rate correct? Also your suspension travel is directly related on a 1:1 basis of the actual coil over?
Just courious, never researched the cantilever stuff much although it is neat.

 

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u no it dawg!

nice setup, u downtown?

 

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dampening is what a shock does. compression and rebound are the 2 types of movement a damper sees

 

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dampening is what a shock does. compression and rebound are the 2 types of movement a damper sees</TD></TR></TABLE>

okay I didn't word it right, well compression and rebound are adjustable then

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nice setup, u downtown?</TD></TR></TABLE>

I live in Richmond

And Sims, yes and yes.

 

thats sick, mad props.

 

awesome build.

whats the spring rate on CBR shock(s)??

 

nice set up

 

simply nice.