Suspension problem nearly took my corsa out of action on its first track outing on satuday.

If you look about 10 seconds into the video the car twitches left, thats from the strut moving relative to the hub which put a significant amount of toe out onto the car on that wheel, thus making it as if I had steered left a bit, as it happened I felt it so immediately corrected it, so you only see a bit of a twitch but obviously that sort of twitch when you are already on the cornering limit of the car is always going to be a problem, and it was the back that broke free, I turned into the skid to try and catch it but even on full lock it wasnt enough, and it made it to the grass, once it was there I had no chance as ran out of grip.
As soon as I pulled away after the car had settled, I could feel something was wrong, so we put hazzards on and limped round to the pull in after quarry where I would be out the way enough to not interfere with the session for everyone else.

It was very close to hitting the barrier as you can see!

I thought the bolt had come loose but much to my surprise the bolt wasnt loose at all when I went to undo it, but there obviously just wasnt enough friction on it for some reason (maybe it was a bit greasey when it was assembled) to hold on the shock absorber with hard cornering forces.




You can see in this picture where I had the full lock on trying to catch it, which held it sideways briefly, which I guess took just enough momentum out to stop it getting the barrier!

 

Was haven a drunk conversation on sat with my mate about mad cars, he started telling me all about this guy vaux sport or something with a mid engined nova called chip

small world eh?

 

Lucky escape !

Good to see you at TOTB in one piece today !

 

Yeah it was very lucky indeed mate, thats a properly nasty corner to come off at when your at full pace, was within a few foot of the armco at the nearest point when the car span, just lucky I managed to get full opposite lock on soon enough to take me further through the corner so I came out at a shallower angle, I think if I had been just a couple of tenths slower getting lock on it would have been too late!

 

very lucky dude.

now get it sorted and book pembrey

 

What lump have you got in this one Chipper?

 

did you click the video?

 

Spikey, will possibly bring the clio to pembrey, of the two i still prefer that at the moment handling wise and ive never done pembrey before so sooner be in a car i trust.

Aquariousrs, its a snotty old xe on bike bodies, 171bhp

 

Surely thats a wee bit laggy for you aint it?

Any pics of the engine bay?

 

Lol, yes mate, lag till the limiter!

 

Just reading your thread on Vauxsport now.

Cool lil car.

 

you sorted the issues out with the clio, from combe?

be good to see you there, me paul and mate(discostu) all three of us pug 205's so plenty of french racing

 

Not even looked at the clio yet mate.
I know it needs a gearbox, but not sure what else if anything it needs too.
Might try and get it apart this weekend if I get a chance, just been far too busy lately

 

same here, i need to do a few things too, but just been flat out on new place, car is just sat there and stares at me everytime i open the garage door

 

Just not enough days when Im near my cars sadly

 

was like that with my rally car, was only 5 miles away but was hassle and in someone elses garage so couldnt just pop to garage to do work on it

fingers crossed you will have it done in time

 

In my case its just that I work in london and the car is in somerset, so literally NO possibiliy to work on it except weekends.

Im sure i'll manage to get one of them sorted in time