Quote Originally Posted by techinspector1 View Post
I'd be all about making some rear fender flares if the unit is a little too wide. Either that or slicing and dicing the rear fenders to install widening strips.
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I would not pass up an opportunity to make the unit work. Just think about the braggin' rights involved and the ride quality. Take lots of photos.

Eliminating the struts would involve engineering and fabricating an upper control arm, then mounting a conventional coil spring or coilover unit. With your training and some perseverance, you could pull it off, I'm sure. Get a copy of Carroll Smith's "Tune To Win" book and read it through. He shows how to make "paper dolls" in the back of the book, a kind of sample suspension system made of paper and using stick pins to test out a suspension geometry on paper before committing to hard parts. Carroll Smith is the only reason I was able to envision and construct an entire independent front suspension from scratch when building my '27 T Roadster. I read many other authors before him, but he was the "Guru-What-Am".

Googling Clanwilliam reveals a South African location. Is that where you are?

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My first task after breakfast tomorrow, is to go measure up the rear end of the 300c. I will report back. I agree that it is probably too early to throw in the towel on it. As for the engineering, I did mention that I flunked out in 1971, didn't I? I am a tradesman, by choice, by training (I have a dusty old Journeyman Lineman ticket someplace) and by genetics. I have worked with my hands my whole life, and I hope this project will be sort of a grand thesis of that. I actually made my living as a full time professional farmer, for 35 years, but most of my day to day work was with my hands.
Clanwilliam is a tiny village in Manitoba, Canada. I see you live in Hemmet. I am sort of your neighbour for 3 months each winter; we spend Jan/Feb/Mar on the beach in Oceanside.
Glen