rapidcossie

Compared to the fronts would make it handle like what?

dovboy

rwd?

rapidcossie

My car.

dovboy

i would have thought a little give in the rear would be better suited to yours euan.

i had mine quite hard on the front then toe'd out to combat the understear,not a good idea to toe out when you do topspeed tho.

never did any realy high speeds when i had it toe out but i've heard it makes them unstable.


to sum up tho imo a little softer at the rear to get the power down.

rapidcossie

I used to love the handling of my car, it was set up standard and was super stable in all condtions although it did understeer badly when pushed hard.

I got some ahmed springs a while ago and got track spec rears and road spec fronts.

I know the car needs tracked but its very unstable thru long high speed sweepers and wanders on slight direction changes at high speeds.

If i go round and round a roundabout the back comes round like I have pulled the handbrake?

I just want the ld predictable car back!

Daviet

deffo get the tracking sorted first euan then go from there as tracking being out could defo make it do what your saying.
at least then you know thats correct and can go from there

col cos1

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just had new rack fitted to mine first stop after mapping is to get tracking done

Stavros

stiffer rear will make it oversteer more, sounds like you want less.

is it lowered a lot on the stock beam? as they toe out to fuck, which is shite for handling.

markk

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you cant really say that without knowing what is happening to the geometry under full load, this ia the 1st port of call, a proper setup. the works sierras used to run harder rear springs to combat squat under accell

rapidcossie

Mike suggested the harder rear springs to stop squat as per what mark says.

Ill get it all tracked up and report back.

pa_sjo

Get a proper beam on the back and that'll change everything..

NEIL A

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Euan get it over to Andy and get it set up, i know my car will be going over to him once i get the back beam on.

boXXer

deffo more oversteer.

alistairolsen

depends, round bends, for launching, which aspect do you want to optimise? its always a compromise, and not a nice one because fords rear beam design is such a shonky pile of shite

markk

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i totally agree, hence why we removed this limitation from my escort.

dave cos4x4

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Col,

would it not be better getting the tracking done before the mapping.