Mid with a touch of Andy´s
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Mid with a touch of Andy´s
About 5 years ago, I got a set of Andy´s rear arms on an Optima - Thought they were the meanest arms I´ve ever seen, including the ones on Schwarzenegger.
A cold and windy day in 2012 I found the matching fronts - from that day and on, my life hasn´t been anything but shear joy and happiness.
Front rims are cutdown rears.
Shocks are threaded Equalizers (Service information for gomachv, who´s obviously not getting younger )
Turnbuckles are Yokomo - on a sidenote, those will not surrender to the hacksaw. I don´t know what they´re made of, think they´re to heavy to be Ti, but still hard as H...
A cold and windy day in 2012 I found the matching fronts - from that day and on, my life hasn´t been anything but shear joy and happiness.
Front rims are cutdown rears.
Shocks are threaded Equalizers (Service information for gomachv, who´s obviously not getting younger )
Turnbuckles are Yokomo - on a sidenote, those will not surrender to the hacksaw. I don´t know what they´re made of, think they´re to heavy to be Ti, but still hard as H...
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Re: Mid with a touch of Andy´s
Those arms look great
The rest looks pretty nice too!
The rest looks pretty nice too!
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Re: Mid with a touch of Andy´s
Looks great! I have a pair of rear Andy's arms myself but can't find new fronts, though I do have Andy's knuckles, I couldn't make out what the knuckle arms on yours are.
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Re: Mid with a touch of Andy´s
Late ot-16 stock plastic?
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Re: Mid with a touch of Andy´s
Many thanks -
Yes it´s the ot-16vb (Very Bad)? plastics as gomachv says.
I don´t know if they ever came on a stock Optima or Mid, or it was just made for the touring cars.
EvolutionRevolution would know that?
I´ve got a set of Andy´s knuckles but they been "optimized" with an extra hole for enhanced steering.
Yes it´s the ot-16vb (Very Bad)? plastics as gomachv says.
I don´t know if they ever came on a stock Optima or Mid, or it was just made for the touring cars.
EvolutionRevolution would know that?
I´ve got a set of Andy´s knuckles but they been "optimized" with an extra hole for enhanced steering.
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Re: Mid with a touch of Andy´s
The stinger mkII's came with them on the late models so I'm sure it's possible they came on some late optima mids as well
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Re: Mid with a touch of Andy´s
Those knuckles seemed to be included in some of the partially built kits like celica gt4 and possibly lazer alfa or lazer 2000. I ended up with a couple sets but the metal ones appear to be more common. First time I tried to install the king pins in one, I managed to strip it! By the way, those andys arms look great!
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Re: Mid with a touch of Andy´s
Basically all on-road cars, as far as I know. The Lazer Alpha, Mantis, and Pureten Alphas use a slightly different design. Some gas powered cars came with reinforced versions with thicker plastic.
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Re: Mid with a touch of Andy´s
Wow! That looks great Dennis! And at 4.5 years to paint it, your still ahead of my schedule!
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Re: Mid with a touch of Andy´s
with such a technical paint job, no wonder it takes so long
Looking good - the yellow accent matches the rims very well!
Looking good - the yellow accent matches the rims very well!
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Re: Mid with a touch of Andy´s
And I thought *I* needed a long time to finish a build...
Nice end-result, Dennis!
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