The Euro 427 Chassis
Why we believe it's one of the best in the industry.

The chassis you'll get as the `skeleton' of your Euro 427 Is the result of three pre-production prototypes and many hours work, both at the bench and the drawing board; though it's lineage can be traced back to the first Venom chassis, designed and built by Rob Budd of Eagle cars, If you know our Venom you'll see the family features.

There are many Cobra replicas on the market, using a variety of chassis types; pressed sheet steel Is used to a great extent; however this method is used for one reason alone-cost. There are two main problems to overcome in a car chassis- lateral rigidity (bending) and torsional rigidity (twisting), bent and pressed sheet steel is not very good at preventing either, any good design engineer will tell you that if we take a piece of pressed `U' section channel as a benchmark of `1', then by comparison a piece of tube with a square section comes in at `600'- thats 600 times more likely to resist bending and twisting forces. Thats why we use tube.

The actual design is semi-spaceframe, using a platform with a stressed backbone that forms the transmission tunnel, you'll see that the front and rear suspension mounting areas are securely tied together, via the bulkhead frame, in two planes, forming a virtual box about 300mm X 800mm X 2100mm; virtually un-twistable. Some people might argue that our semi-spaceframe is not authentic enough for anyone that wishes to build a more `up-market' car, true- we could have copied the old twin rail design; but then If you really want `olde worlde' looks why not go for leaf springs and friction dampers as well? Like many of our competitors we utilise Ford Sierra/ Granada suspension and steering components adapted to use `collover shocks, however some don't keep the original geometry, instead of actually thinking about it they'll move something around to clear something else, and then wonder why they get tyre scrub on full lock, bump steer, bent suspension arms and premature wear on Joints and bushes- We have kept rigidly to the original Ford angles, dimensions and positioning.

Our top wishbones (`A' arms) are kept short and triangular to give strength, but give correct camber change as the suspension travels, and our lower ones have heavy construction to give precise track location and support and the rear `leg' is angled rearward to counteract heavy braking forces.


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