C5 Corvette Steering Knuckle Spindle strength
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C5 Corvette Steering Knuckle Spindle strength
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I would like some information please – I’m building a Lamborghini Diablo kit car using the C5 Corvette Steering Knuckle Spindle with a Honda ball joint at the top as the top will be load bearing with the shock attached to the top A arm. In New Zealand to build a kit car you have to have the design approved as safe before you have compliance to drive it on the road. In the first stages the inspector have come back to me with concerns that the C5 might no be strong enough to have the top as load bearing as they have asked me to have a FEA test at 3G bump.
Has anybody done a test on the C5 spindle or give me any info that would confirm that the top would be strong enough?
I would like some information please – I’m building a Lamborghini Diablo kit car using the C5 Corvette Steering Knuckle Spindle with a Honda ball joint at the top as the top will be load bearing with the shock attached to the top A arm. In New Zealand to build a kit car you have to have the design approved as safe before you have compliance to drive it on the road. In the first stages the inspector have come back to me with concerns that the C5 might no be strong enough to have the top as load bearing as they have asked me to have a FEA test at 3G bump.
Has anybody done a test on the C5 spindle or give me any info that would confirm that the top would be strong enough?
Last edited by MufasaDOG; Sep 29, 2019 at 04:09 AM.
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I doubt you will get much on here as we do not have much reason to test them. TitoJones owned a company named ATS that designed the AFX spindle which mounted a C5 bearing packing and changed the camber curves for GM muscle cars. I know he went through durability testing for his spindle. If you can contact him, he may have the info needed. The advanced tech of Pro-touring.com or Lateral-G.net may have someone that knows. The C5/C6 spindle is used in many aftermarket frames, and subframes in the pro-touring world.
https://www.pro-touring.com/threads/...t-50-50/page15
https://www.pro-touring.com/threads/...t-50-50/page15
