PRI

[hotrod316]

Roo you in the shop or at the PRI show Thursday?
steve m

[rooman]

PRI

Roo

[dreracecar]

Ask Strange why they messed with the kingpin angle on their dragster spindles

[beargeorge]

I just bought a new set of STRANGE stilleto spindals what should i for

[dreracecar]

If you are building a new car and going to use a tri-pod style front end, there are no problems
If you are replacing older spindles on an existing axle with the new Strange's, they will have 1* neg camber, EVERY spindle ever made before these were 8* and the new Stranges are 7*

[ricardo1967]

If you are building a new car and going to use a tri-pod style front end, there are no problems
If you are replacing older spindles on an existing axle with the new Strange's, they will have 1* neg camber, EVERY spindle ever made before these were 8* and the new Stranges are 7*

Wow, this is too bad, thanks for the heads up Bruce. The 8° Strange spindles will became collectible items. What were they thinking??

[fuel749]

If you're building a new axle or replacing the spindle bosses as well as the spindles you'll have no problems. 

[dreracecar]

The work to change the spindle bosses is more work than just building a new axle, Anything CAN be done, this is just a heads up to those replacing existing spindles or buying a pre-made axle, that the new Strange units have different dimentions then what has been the industry standard for the last 50 years.

[fuel749]

There's been a couple different spindle boss heights as well between a couple of the manufacturers as well. 

[dreracecar]

Yes there are and M/W wants you to use a bronze thrust washer (comes with) to make up the gap.

[rooman]

I talked to Dimitri from Strange today and he said that when they did their spindles they simply copied the existing units. I just set one of my Strange units up in the lathe chuck and measured the king pin angle relative to the lathe bed and it is 8 degrees. To make sure I was doing it right I put a McKinney spindle up next and it measured the same. Interesting the P-S Machine spindles off my Don Long car measure in at 8.5+ degrees but they had the bushes reamed after they were chromed back in 1969 and that may be where the discrepancy comes from.
I had made a new axle for one of my customers this week and cut the notch to the same angle as I always did for the Stiletto spindles (and more recent Strange units) and the boss fit perfectly with the spindles in my Mark William style fixture.
 
Roo

[dreracecar]

Bad QC at Strange then

SPE  8.5
M/W  8.5
P&S 8.5
OEM Anglia  8.5
Strange   7.5

all measured the same way off the chuck in my lathe with a digital degree readout

[ricardo1967]

Bad QC at Strange then

SPE  8.5
M/W  8.5
P&S 8.5
OEM Anglia  8.5
Strange   7.5

all measured the same way off the chuck in my lathe with a digital degree readout

Bruce... have you called Strange about this??

[dreracecar]

I did, said they would get back to me, that was 3 months ago, but figured I was the only one that brought it up "we sold hundreds of these and no problems", not many shops build front axles like I do anymore.

[fuel749]

 not many shops build front axles like I do anymore.

They don't? How do they get made?