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Ben Lipman
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Soarer TT manual, plus TT track car, plus a spare shell

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Monday, May 26, 2014 - 04:13 pm, by:  Ben Lipman (Ben12a)

Is it April again?

If this is legit and not a wind up, then I can see a bunch of engineering hassles:

I think you will need a complete custom centre diff housing to allow the rear diff to function. I believe it would be easier to find an old Army 6x6 vehicle and salvage the diff housing from that and modify it. But then it wont be an IRS diff housing...

If you wish to use a pair of UZZ32 rear axles, the first hurdle is finding them. Only 800 odd cars were made, and they all seem to be owned by enthusiasts. The ones being wrecked are generally used to save the remainder, and it is a pretty tight community in Australia.

Staying with the UZZ32 axles, you then need to construct a second set of strut towers and work out how to get all the linkages working. And working together. I think the control arms, toe rods, cradles etc are going to force the two axles further apart than you are going to want.

If you are serious about this, and you don't want to simply drop a Soarer body shell onto a functioning chassis, I think you really need to gut the rear end and make a custom subframe that houses all the diff and suspension components.

Engage an engineer very early to see what you are going to need to do to get this project on the road. There might be a bunch of hidden issues: it might become an individually constructed vehicle and there might be bunch of laws (emissions, collision etc) that are tighter now than they were in 1992 and will be hard to comply with.

Any rate, good luck.

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