Well had the Saff all setup today, look at how it was, no wonder it was pulling all over the place

-21.mm Front



Rear



End result..





Mike took your advice and it's totally awesome now, drives superb, must say aswell, this car REALLY pulls well, credit to Jim and Karl etc for all the hardwork and ££ that's gone in to it, don't think i need a GT30 setup..



...Regards Pete..

 

TOLD YOU .

Glad you like it, but Leigh WANTS your turbo .

 

nice to see its all set up now who does this in the north west area

 

It really is fucking amazing the difference between a car thats setup right or not, its so easy to think "its only a few mm difference" and not realise how much difference that actually translates to in the handling.

Attention to detail on this front is without a doubt why everyone who has driven MikeR's car raves about it so much!

 

what suspension parts need to be fully adjustable to benefit from this set up?

i really need the xr2 set up properly but only have coilovers and adjustable panhard rod?

will i have to wait till i have adjustable front and rear arms etc?

thanks
marc

 

Mike, yes mate i must admit it's like driving a completely differen car, cheers buddy..




Chip, you're SO right in what you say, if i'd only had this done with my 3 dr alot of people probably asume there cars are setup well etc, but i'd recommend this to anyone and only £58...

 

Well just doing the tracking properly would put you better than most cars out there, lol

But yes you need adjustable arms really so that camber and castor can be set.

I would imagine the rear end of your its pretty limited in terms of what can easily be fabricated to alter camber back there though.

Eccentric bushes work well on calibra rear arms for example. but ive never seen anything similar for the XR2, but TBH its not really a car im familiar with anyway, so obvioulsy you need to talk to someone who is.

I would give Brom a ring when he is back from his little gaunt across europe.

 

il be getting the front arms underway then,

as for the rear i can have adjustable rear drop links and ear trailing ams etc but il look into that later

deffo worth getting done tho for the money

 

Gaunt??????
Dont think you could ever call Brom " gaunt "

 

PMSL

picky cunt!


Jaunt

 

Picky------------------------me

 

I should have spelt that pikey by mistake on purpose, lol

 

Does that mean you think I'm a pikey?

 

No it means I cant think of anything else insulting you could make from that.

 

Ahhhh I see so because I pulled you on (gaunt} you have retaliate by finding a way to insult me.

 

Its a pretty short bit of banter if I dont

 

Brilliant News.......I knew there couldn't be much wrong, and it had to be something with the set-up.

Now Get Out There and Drive it......

I just checked my ruler to see how much it was out......

 

Just noticed the address on the print out......

"Camp" Hill......

 

Glad its sorted Pete ..........its crying out for a GT30 though .....

Leigh

 

Tell you what mate it's not fooking shy now.. i ran out of bottle today with still plenty of grunt left...WUSSY....

 

Ha Ha....Yep, The cars more capable than most of us drivers....LOL.

 

wait til you try it in the wet then

 

Euan, i was in a rain shower today, i backed right off......... can't imagine what 500 horses must be like..

 

with a standard back axle

mines wheels spins on half throttle

needs to start saving my pennies for a rear beam

 

I must admit, the setup on this car is awesome, the beam tca`s are fantastic, handling gives you SO much confidence you don't think you're in a 18yr old car...

 

Mines feels like its going to take off

shame its mega bucks for the beam

 

Yeah, i was lucky enough to buy this car with it ALL done, only a few months ago aswell..

 

£1200 from Ahmed !!

 

Just bought a plate and morettes

could sell them I would have the 1200

 

Ha,

you not so clue'd up on suspension then Chip.



As pm's Marc,

Front,
Camber = adj tca's or camber bolts.
Castor = adj Tiebars, or modified to suit your car.

Rear,
Beam mod's for camber and tracking.
adj link arms to allign a axle to car.
Panhold rod to centralise the beam to car.

 

not so clued up yourself either dan - it's a panhard rod

 

its my Spelling.


But i take the on the chin.

 

Weirdly you seemed to reply saying the same as me, and then sounded like you were saying otherwise.

I know a bit about suspension, but nothing about modifying the panhard rod arrangement on a fiesta (other than how to spell it correctly at least) as Ive never worked on one.

 

i never said the same as you, as you are wrong.


Adjustable lower arms will only do Camber, not castor.......

 

Tie bar sets the castor on most cars ive worked on, and goes straight onto the TCA normally, so if you make that union adjustable (or the one to the shell from the tie bar) it allows you to set the castor.

Im not familiar with the fiesta setup though, like I mentioned, but that doenst mean I know nothing about suspension in general like it appeared you were saying for some reason.

 

No point worming your way out of it. like you usually do.

you were wrong on what your wrote, even if you didn't mean it like that.

 

Mate, if it bothers you that much then fair enough I didnt put as much detail as I could of

 

i'm only playing dude.

 

 

Thanks for the pm.