Lotus Elise Suspension
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Lotus Elise Suspension Parts
Caster adjustment is not easy and does take a long time as you have to undo the wishbones. But that's hardly ever required to be changed.
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Lotus Cars: Shop Manual: Lotus Elise Front Suspension Front Suspension The fully independent front suspension comprises, on each side of the car, upper and lower, fabricated tubular steel wishbones, with a concentric coil spring/telescopic damper unit picking up on the outboard end of the lower wishbone. An extruded aluminiurn alloy hub carrier, houses a dual taper roller bearing which supports a steel hub equipped with 4 wheel studs. A forward mounted tubular steel anti-roll bar, is supported in plastic bushes and is operated via short ball jointed drop links from the lower wishbones. The inboard ends of both wishbones use replaceable bonded rubber pivot bushes to provide maintenance free articulation and suppression of noise and vibration. Familiar of zero dub. Both upper and lower steering swivel ball joints are pressed into housings incorporated into the outer ends of the upper and lower wishbones. The upper ball pin is secured to the forged steel, rearward facing steering arm, itself fixed to the hub carrier by two M1 0 bolts.
For example, the alignment should be done when the car has half a tank of gas and the weight of a driver included. Because the Elise is so light and the alignment is so critical to the performance of the car, the weight of the driver in the seat will have a large impact on the settings. Standard Elise Mid-laden (ride height reference for geometry check) Height front 130 mm below front end of chassis siderail rear 130 mm below rear end of chassis siderail Camber optimum – 0.1degrees° tolerance + 0.1degrees° to - 0.3degrees°; Max side/side 0.2degrees° Castor optimum + 3.8degrees° tolerance + 3.5degrees° to + 4.1degrees°; max. Side/side: 0.35degrees° Alignment optimum Zero tolerance 0.5 mm toe-out to 0.7 mm toe-in overall (0.07degrees° toe-out to 0.10degrees° toe-in overall) Steering axis inclination 12degrees° nominal Comments from Arno of EliseTalk Umm.