homemade shocks

[Bonzo]

Hi Tony

When I first started my build, I nearly S**T my pants when I found out how much my coil over shocks wer going to cost me

A few good ebay sales later, I decided to bite the bullet & buy them .... One of the first things I bought, glad I did because nearly 4 year's later & they have gone up by almost £100 !!

Anyhow to the point of this post.

I did toy with making my own coil overs with these



Triumph shocks .... As fitted to the front of Triumph Herald, Vitesse, GT6 & Spitfire ect .... They can be had for as little as £30 per pair.

I had a few kicing about when I was clearing all of my Vitesse parts & the measurements were not a million miles away from what was needed for the Roadster.

My Idea was Machine some top fittings to take a bush ( Not unlike a coil over ) then machine some spring retaining plates ( Again, not unlike a coil over )
Top of the shock is pre threaded so it would not be a problem fixing the top fittings.

I guess the hardest work would be finding the ideal size of spring to use ... Again custom springs can be found for about £40 a pair.
Never going to be adjustable ( Unless you are clever ) so ride height will be fixed & a fair bit of trial & error finding a suitable spring poundage

Right now for the disclaimer !!??

This post is purely the thoughts of this old fool on a Sunday morning
Deliberately posted to encourage the debate .... Are Lo-Cost shocks possible.

I For one think coil over shocks are grossly overpriced for what they are !!??

As said, for deabate .... Don't go & actually make them without propper research.