Fiecos Dan

As i cant fords data anywhere,

Does anyone know what fords original castor setting is for a mk2 xr2 fiesta??

OR does anyone know where i could find it??


as been out and measured the castor on my xr2tt, and

on the O/S = 30 minutes castor, and on the N/S it has 23 minutes castor.

i'm gonna tomorrow try and add more castor by spaceing the tie bar.






Cheers Danny

Stavros

No offense to anyone, but fords owners idea of supsension geometry is

"yea bruv, its fuckin slammed bruv, hard as fuck, ya get me"

"whas castor? aint that oil bruv?"



No idea on standard settings, but 3-4 deg cant be a bad thing, i got about 8deg now i got adj tension rods

Fiecos Dan

Cheers Steve, productive input at always

How's your cars??


Got any idea where i can find this out?
as all my manuals for fiesta's and ecsorts sont quote it, but my cossie manual does,
Unless ford never tested it.

_DAN_

http://www.siipicossu.com/manuaaleja/manuaalit.htm

http://www.cannell.co.uk/Manuals.htm

Fiecos Dan

Cheers mate, but cant see anything on a xr2 mk2 fiesta.

Fiecos Dan

A mate went into his work today and had a look in his auto data book.

Results,

xr2, 1984-1989

toe = 0
camber = 0' 45"
castor = 0
Kpi = 13' 40"

But a 1.4s has different data, which shows 2 of either the ride hieght lower, or the tca is shorter, or the shock holes are different, or the tie bar is shorter.... are different to the xr2 to change it.
with

camber = 1' 30"
castor = 0' 45"
kpi = 13' 40"


Also checked the cossie data, and seemed correct to my ford workshop manual.

M Brian

the xr2 is lower than the 1.4s it has different suspension shockers and springs from what I can remember.
also non vented discs so maybe different mountings

Fiecos Dan

could be,
when i had a std 1.4s, i fitted xr2 shocks and springs etc etc, but never checked the settings, just done toe by eye.





Yesterday, i set the car up in my garage, so it was level all round

Then i measured, 4 wheel Toe, camber and castor all round

It come out like this

Front, modded camber, and poly bushes.
toe = 2mm out,
camber n/s = -2' 30", o/s = -2' 15"
castor n/s = +0' 30", o/s = +0' 23"

Rear, Still std bushes and beam.
Toe, n/s = in 2mm, o/s = out 3mm = total in 1mm toe out.
camber, n/s = -0' 8", o/s = -0' 11"




After a day of playing with the suspension to day,

including

- shorterning the tie bars by 17mm each side, making new washers and fitting new poly bushes,
- cutting and welding the n/s tie bar to miss the gearbox casing,
- cutting the front arches and body kit to stop any tyre scrub ( as now the wheel sits 2 mm away from front of the arch)
- going for a drive to settle all mod's and bushes.
- Checking Toe and adjusting to no toe, checking camber and castor.
- and finally going for a hard test drive round the local track ( the loop)

It does seem to understeer less, but it still does round roundabouts whilst pushing it.

The setting now sit at

Front,
0 toe,
camber n/s = -1' 38", o/s = -1' 23"
castor n/s = +3' 00", o/s = +2' 45"

Rear, Still std bushes and beam.
Toe, n/s = in 2mm, o/s = out 3mm = total in 1mm toe out.
camber, n/s = -0' 8", o/s = -0' 11"

So now i'm gonna put more camber on fronts, and fit new poly bushes on rear and space beam out to get even toe of 0 toe, and put camber to -1' 30"