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[retro2]

i have recently acquired a beam axle, similar to the one available from huddersfield mini spares, i am thinking of making my own tubular radius arms to go along with it to do away with the cast items as standard.

does anyone know of anyone else who has done such a thing? and possible some pics aswell?

i have heard of a company selling them but no-one knows who?

has anyone seen the billet ones that www.specialist-components.co.uk have available, as well as there other stuff, looks very nice, if a little expensive!

any info greatly appreciated

[miniboo]

saw the billet arma at bingley and i recon they are well worth the moolah in my opinion.

[jack_marshall]

I thought standard radius arms we're hollowed, not solid cast?

[Woody]

The autograss mini lads make their own radius arms by cutting out the stubaxle from a standard item and fabricating it up out of square boxsection
unfortunatly i havent raced for 10 years so dont know anyone that has done it latly

[A_SERIES_SUPPLIES]

hi all
i make all sizes of these rear trailing arms out of cds steel tube. my own super strong design .
they are mainly for autograss rear suspension rear wheel drive or drive free versions.


eddie

[foster]

here is a pic of my radius arms that are made from cds tubing, they are mounted with rose joints to allow for plenty of adjustment and also manurfacturing indrescrepancies, pm me if you need anymore pics or help

My project 'mini sprint' is in the projects area if its anything on it is of use to you

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[Dan]

Yes they are hollow as standard, but they are definitely a casting.

Have you seen the cast alloy items made by KAD? They are very light, but then the Specialist ones are both light AND gorgeous I suppose.

Remember that if you miss your grease service on the rear suspension then aluminium alloy arms will wear a lot faster than cast iron ones.

Edited by Dan, 20 February 2006 - 04:26 PM.

[fastcarl]

foster, seemless box?????????? .

carl

[foster]

Doh! that was the rest of the car

[Davecox and Patsy]

Hi foster, hope you can help am trying to view your pics of your radius arms, but cant seem to see them keep getting not authorised. I am desperately looking for pics so can make my own. Anything you can do to help will be appreciated. if you still have the original pics I wold be very gratefull if you would post them to me at [email protected] once again thanks for any help, Dave.

[jondrane]

Hi did anyone manage to get hold of some pictures after? I am looking to do some thing simuler but use the mk 5 golf rear disk set up. The golf hubs have a bolt on stub axle which is easy to mount and the drums wouldn`t need adjusting any more.
Thanks
Jon

[minili]

FYI... This thread is nearly 4 years old

[miniman andy]

Any luck. Im in the same situation but im wanting ford zetec hubs on the back of mine due to the ford lattice wheels i want.
I know these hubs are perfect for a custom mini rear radius arm. As i have seen plenty of RWD pickups at autograss running siera rear hubs.

At th moment i got a metro radius. But i rather the mini radius arm due to the rear beam i got from huddersfield spares.
But nothing is working out at the mo.
I can use the bearings out of the metro in the ford hub. But i want to keep the abs ring in there and fitting it to the metro arm will crush it as the ford hub is wider than the metros.
Anyhow. What im ideally after is a custom radius arm that as said above. Would fit the beam axle (being the standard mini radius arm bearing kit in a tube) to a ford fiesta hub. So all i have to do is 4 bolts and the abs plug to fit the ford hub.
If anyone can help us please let me know.

[nicklouse]

Get some hubs machined to suit the arms you want to use?

You will not get the track you have with the metro arms if you use mini arms.