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Old 25th June 2013, 06:17 PM
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Dave, I've wondered the same as I bought a second hand chassis too. mine was already a rolling chassis though, so at least I have the reassurance that the wish bones are in an appropriate place for them to function.

I started the ' car building' process thinking it'd all be about fine tolerances and components that were aligned to thousands of a millimetre....

then: a) someone pointed out to me how much a tyre deformed during cornering, etc.
and b) I read a story somewhere of a chap who measured his production salon car ( model I think) and found it was over 10mm longer one side than the other...!

getting body panels etc to fit shouldn't be add problem, grp is pliable.

if a jig is used for wishbones then they'll be aligned correctly to function.

in terms of it looking like a banana, if it looks ok to the eye, none will know if you've had to do some correction in the set up...
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