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Week 10 of The Minerva Project.
It's been a long road for us but we're making some headway.
Most of that bodywork has already been done so now we gotta get Minerva some new shoes...
that means we gotta get some new wheels.
Up until this point, the front suspension has been stock
and the brakes that are on there are stock as well.
Minerva never went over fifty five miles an hour pretty much and the engine and
everything would start to shake at that point. So,
this new suspension that's going to be put in there needs to be able to stop a
vehicle going faster than 55mph.
That means we're gonna get some upgraded brakes.
The upgraded brakes are from Wilwood. They're four piston calipers and new
rotors.
We have to make sure that the wheels will be able to fit.
The Saturn lug pattern is different from the Volkswagen lug pattern.
So, we're going to have to machine the hubs.
If we didn't do this, we would have two different wheels on the back
and two different wheels on the front,
which means serviceability would be really bad. Most of the suspensions that
you guys see out there use shocks and struts,
uh... springs sometimes leaf springs in trucks,
this is actually a torsion bar. It's a torsion suspension. I'm gonna go out and
show you what that looks like.
I'm also gonna take you down to meet Henry and the boys at RPC Driveline. These guys
are going to do the machining of the hubs for us.
So, of course, I want you guys to watch all the Minerva videos. But, make sure you stay
tuned and watch next week's video.
I think we found a world-class airbrush artist that's going to be doing the work
on Minerva. Pierre is going to be in this next video so make sure you stay
tuned.
This is our new suspension assembly
from a company out of Oregon called Wagenswest.
The final ride height of Minerva is gonna be
a few inches lower than
what this was stock - about four inches lower. It doesn't sound like much
but it makes a big difference. This, my friends,
is the old suspension - the old front suspension.
This has a torsion suspension
and it's a upper and lower torsion.
So, the tension is held
within these bars. And the shocks are what dampen the bounce.
This, right here, is a temporary brace
holding the sides of the body
until we actually can put this brace in that's going to attach to the
strut tower.
There's your brace. That's going to make sure that the suspension behaves the way
it should.
This thing's going to handle really well when it's done.
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