'83 3.8L, 50 MPG, big brakes

[Lucky]

Sure it is. Really just a complicated repair. Where wouldn't it be street legal?

Thomas is from Germany, where they have the world's most draconian road legality tests (other than Japan's Shaken, where anything that's basically not OEM will fail). The TÜV is kinda like type approval for every component you change on the car and can be very expensive and aggravating, I gather

[ian65]

Sure it is. Really just a complicated repair. Where wouldn't it be street legal?

Thomas is from Germany, where they have the world's most draconian road legality tests (other than Japan's Shaken, where anything that's basically not OEM will fail). The TÜV is kinda like type approval for every component you change on the car and can be very expensive and aggravating, I gather

worse than Belgium?

[Lucky]

Dunno The only two things I know about Belgium are that their football team were the ultimate under-achievers of the last World Cup and it has the only all-lit motorway network in the world. That's not really much help, is it?

Oh, and I went to Ypres once. That was depressing

[spirit r]

Sure it is. Really just a complicated repair. Where wouldn't it be street legal?

Yes, as Lucky say never in Germany slabbing load bearing parts as i can see in your thread without test and expensive approval certificate.
Perhaps of germany's highspeed highway without speedlimit.

[spirit r]

Sure it is. Really just a complicated repair. Where wouldn't it be street legal?

Yes, as Lucky say never in Germany slabbing load bearing parts as i can see in your thread without test and expensive approval certificate.
Perhaps of germany's highspeed highway without speedlimit.

[economiser]

Admittedly some places in America don't even have annual safety inspections, ours are lax here where I am, but this sort of fab can realistically be expected to hold up even to a 150 KPH crash. My own welds seldom look good, but I've never broke one in any testing or abuse. I tend to overkill everything. As for what you just saw, I'll be adding more bracing after I get the car turned around. As it is, I can't reach the welding leads to the butchery I just did.
This car will probably never see 250 HP, but even if it ends up with 700 horses, race slicks, and a cage, the tires will let go long before the fabrication work becomes a concern.
As for Germany, how do you guys register home-made kit cars, like fake Shelby Cobras, or reproduction '32 Fords, or restored '69 Camaros, or the German equivalents?
Maybe just trailer your monsters to the Nurburgring?
Oh, just got the steering sorted enough to turn the car around, pics soon.

[economiser]

[economiser]

[economiser]

After removing the front springs, assembling the rest of the front suspension, assembling the "new" rear axle, and measuring, I find there's no space for wheel adapters, and no way to change the lug circle of the front hubs, except to replace the 4-lug with 5-lug, which is necessary for big brakes anyway. But I'm already over budget, so I'm thinking just order front wheels. Only I can't make that match without going 5-lug.
So I found a pair of '01 Mercedes S430 Brembo calipers for $ 110 / pr, delivered, including everything, even the used pads. Next was figuring out rotors, and after 2 hours on Napa's website, I found some 11.75" x 1.25", 5 on 4.5, with a large enough center bore, and less than 0.010" too much height.
Anyone wanting to copy this, the rotors are part number NB4885743. And only $ 54 each! Now I'll have to fab some caliper mounts to adapt them, but that's ok.

[economiser]