I am at the point where I'm putting suspension back together on the car after removing all of the rust, priming and painting, and replacing most sphericals. The previous owner labeled nearly everything in baggies with decent instructions, but did not have pictures to provide me on how the car was before he disassembled it. Mostly I've been able to find answers on here as well as in picture references from Jason Fair, who also has an 83 Reynard and I've been lucky enough to have him send me lots of pictures when I've been unsure so far. In this case, he did not have the same spacers as me and thus I'm left with a choice.
I'm putting the front lower A arms on and the instructions I got were "Front bolt long 2 spacers Rear bolt short 1 spacer". Jason's car has two spacers sandwiching the sphericals, but with mine I get the choice of putting one spacer either above or below the spherical (and one seemingly superfluous spacer on the front?)
Unfortunately this diagram did not show the two joints I am talking about here - https://www.apexspeed.com/forums/sho...l=1#post623342
I'm building this to compete in CM autocross, and am curious how each of these choices will impact suspension geometry. From what Jason has said, I should make the suspension such that it gets to move pretty freely, and really use the mechanical grip that the car provides. I am planning on getting Anze 7500DA penskes and would like to be able to provide motion ratios prior to ordering them, this choice will impact those and I'd also like to generally understand what this choice will change for handling.
pictures here: https://imgur.com/a/vesvXks