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Right to Left Conversion
StephenSLR:
--- Quote from: 70vette on February 16, 2016, 02:19:01 PM ---the car could be better to drive and work on if it was in its original state
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Absolutely; GM would've invested millions in the design of the steering geometry; when you start messing with it chances are it'll get worse not better.
I think you're doing the right thing and although many said it would never happen; Americans are now buying back some of the US cars we imported; the quality of our restorations is well known over there too.
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69VETTE:
Hey, why wouldn't they buy them back. . yes the quality of some cars restored is phenomenal, and with the US dollar as it is, its cheap for them
StephenSLR:
--- Quote from: 69VETTE on February 17, 2016, 09:39:51 AM ---Hey, why wouldn't they buy them back.
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There's always a bit of a debate on Aus. forums when someone asks about converting to RHD. Most people advise to leave it LHD; they're fun to drive, etc. but one comment that always got a bit of ribbing was to keep them LHD in case the yanks want to buy them back. Many laughed saying it'll never happen; they won't spend that much extra to import them when they have so many cars to choose from over there, etc.
Well it's happening now.
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bfit:
--- Quote from: StephenSLR on February 17, 2016, 09:25:46 AM ---Absolutely; GM would've invested millions in the design of the steering geometry; when you start messing with it chances are it'll get worse not better.
I think you're doing the right thing and although many said it would never happen; Americans are now buying back some of the US cars we imported; the quality of our restorations is well known over there too.
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I don't know about Gm designing things .
they like most design to be adequate not perfect.
C3 `s have a lot of problems in the stock steering.
Bfit
StephenSLR:
--- Quote from: Bfit on February 17, 2016, 04:15:41 PM ---I don't know about Gm designing things.
they like most design to be adequate not perfect.
C3 `s have a lot of problems in the stock steering.
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Yeah, a lot of US muscle cars seemed to only be able to perform well in a straight line; the 'vettes were always a bit better I thought with the IRS and such.
If you're doing a redesign of the geometry, correcting bump steer, centre of gravity, centre of roll, etc. you may do a better job. If you're just swapping over to the other side, using components from other cars that are a close fit, this is where you can run into trouble, trying to clear components and such.
I agree about adequacy; trying to squeeze what you can out of the budget; you can only dedicate so much to design, with the manufacturing processes of the time, etc.
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