3266 replies to this topic

[Sticky]

2000 replies

[VX-GT]

110mm is way too high
(mine will be 90mm front, 95mm rear...)

thats still way to high
40-65mm front
60-85mm rear

[NickB787]

yea and never to see a

110mm is way too high
(mine will be 90mm front, 95mm rear...)

thats still way to high
40-65mm front
60-85mm rear

yea but never to see a road though, Joe that tank is great I hear though that it's can be a pig to fit good luck

[alanoo]

110mm is way too high
(mine will be 90mm front, 95mm rear...)

thats still way to high
40-65mm front
60-85mm rear

Yep but I'm kind of limited by the characteristics of the OE front steering arms at the moment

Joe, well when you add up the 2 pairs of ramps (steel + wood), yep a bit longer

Edited by alanoo, 23 March 2012 - 07:56 PM.

[The Batman]

Nick, fairly easy actually... I have already for the standard pro alloy tank in the car (only done about 100miles

[VX-GT]

110mm is way too high
(mine will be 90mm front, 95mm rear...)

thats still way to high
40-65mm front
60-85mm rear

Yep but I'm kind of limited by the characteristics of the OE front steering arms at the moment

Joe, well when you add up the 2 pairs of ramps (steel + wood), yep a bit longer

surely you define the ride height, then design the position of the steering geo to suit, either through rack height and/or steering arm re-design

[chris_uk]

have you taken into consideration the suspension ball joints?

[VX-GT]

have you taken into consideration the suspension ball joints?

racers use rose-joints

[chris_uk]

yea alright then.

[Mike (Cliffie)]

have you taken into consideration the suspension ball joints?

racers use rose-joints

Racers have cars that work...

[Mike (Cliffie)]

110mm is way too high
(mine will be 90mm front, 95mm rear...)

thats still way to high
40-65mm front
60-85mm rear

Yep but I'm kind of limited by the characteristics of the OE front steering arms at the moment

Joe, well when you add up the 2 pairs of ramps (steel + wood), yep a bit longer

surely you define the ride height, then design the position of the steering geo to suit, either through rack height and/or steering arm re-design

Yes; In an ideal world when you are fabricating from a clean sheet as you are but when you are using an existing car then compromises have to be made but we are not doing that so we make do with 90/100 ride heights and make the car handle as best we can.

Seems to work OK as we have plenty of well handling VX220s out there on road and track.

Not taking away from anything you have done but A. We do not all have the facility to build a three year project and B. We need our cars to work sort of now-ish.

[VX-GT]

110mm is way too high
(mine will be 90mm front, 95mm rear...)

thats still way to high
40-65mm front
60-85mm rear

Yep but I'm kind of limited by the characteristics of the OE front steering arms at the moment

Joe, well when you add up the 2 pairs of ramps (steel + wood), yep a bit longer

surely you define the ride height, then design the position of the steering geo to suit, either through rack height and/or steering arm re-design

Yes; In an ideal world when you are fabricating from a clean sheet as you are but when you are using an existing car then compromises have to be made but we are not doing that so we make do with 90/100 ride heights and make the car handle as best we can.

Seems to work OK as we have plenty of well handling VX220s out there on road and track.

Not taking away from anything you have done but A. We do not all have the facility to build a three year project and B. We need our cars to work sort of now-ish.

so we have established mine is smaller than yours
and
mine takes 3 years to perform

AGREED

[Mike (Cliffie)]

110mm is way too high
(mine will be 90mm front, 95mm rear...)

thats still way to high
40-65mm front
60-85mm rear

Yep but I'm kind of limited by the characteristics of the OE front steering arms at the moment

Joe, well when you add up the 2 pairs of ramps (steel + wood), yep a bit longer

surely you define the ride height, then design the position of the steering geo to suit, either through rack height and/or steering arm re-design

Yes; In an ideal world when you are fabricating from a clean sheet as you are but when you are using an existing car then compromises have to be made but we are not doing that so we make do with 90/100 ride heights and make the car handle as best we can.

Seems to work OK as we have plenty of well handling VX220s out there on road and track.

Not taking away from anything you have done but A. We do not all have the facility to build a three year project and B. We need our cars to work sort of now-ish.

so we have established mine is smaller than yours
and
mine takes 3 years to perform

AGREED

Absolutely agreed Lee.

[siztenboots]

can you mount the trackrod balljoint upside down, so the linkage remains at a better angle , or you go with a custom arm and rose joint

[cnrandall]

90mm ride height is too low. The front is fairly easy to get working at low ride heights, its the rear that kills you. As soon as you drop the roll centres below the ground these little cars get quite unstable. There is no point in going from say, 100mm to 90mm as you still won't be in the window for aero to start performing well. To get to these ride heights you really want uprights with different bearing centres.

[alanoo]

I have some earlier Elisepart rear uprights in fact, only fronts are OE

[cnrandall]

They will do the job although the bearings are still not great.

[Exmantaa]

How's the new tank and pump doing? Everything tested and ready for final mapping??

[The Batman]

sorry for lack of delay, bad times at the moment....

fuel tank is all fitted with thanks to vxt'ed for coming round and giving me a hand, o44 is all plumbed in and wired up and works

even fitted the fire extinguisher kit



and fitted everything else,

things left to do:

fit new wheels when they arrive... then all finished..... bored now...

all loaded on the trailor ready, see what mayhem i can cause towing then

oh and a photo of the mesh

Edited by joe_589, 28 March 2012 - 06:13 PM.

[Exmantaa]

Did you do any testing with the new pump or it must be good now with the 044... (ps, you still need to dremel the clam a bit rounder above the exhaust. )