Rs Craig

can you run compresion struts and adjustable tca's without a anti rollbar (i.e not standard 1) do you notice a massive difference with this set up on as to the standard polly bush way. wheres the best place to buy them anybody does anybody have any pics

extra17

Mike Rainbird

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Compression struts:
Absolutely shit on the road , the ride quality will just go down the toilet due to the high pondage springs you need to run with this set up .

Adjustable TCAs:


My advice for a road car is to get the geometry right and fit some decent suspension. I would not put compression struts on any road car.

Rs Craig

mike what set up do you have, adjustable tca's, coilovers owt else??? standard rollbar

Mike Rainbird

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Front suspension: Independent by LEDA gas filled adjustable dampers / platforms
with Eibach 2¼" springs. Macpherson struts, set to set to 2.25° negative camber (adjustable TCAs), 0" 20' toe in. Standard 29mm anti-roll bar with polyurethane bushes.

Rear suspension: Independent, by semi-trailing arms, LEDA gas filled adjustable dampers / platforms with Eibach 2¼" springs and standard 22mm anti-roll bar. Zoo Grp A 6° ream beam set to 2° negative camber and 0" 20' toe. Polyurethane bushes.

andyescos

I ran em on my Mk2 Tarmac car and they were awesome, the turn in was very good,and geometry could be set perfect! however, they do go the rod ends dont last forever and they are pretty hard through the steering.

Mike Rainbird

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PS. Top secret spring rates .

foreigneRS

you can run compression struts as well as an anti-roll bar.

over here SUHE motorsport sell a kit (and i did have it fitted to my car when i bought it). you get the struts, a bracket to weld on the floorpan near to the arb mount, and some eyes to weld onto the tca at the bottom. so you run the compression strut effectively underneath the arb.

didn't get a chance to see how good they were as i crashed it into a tree after 10 minutes of owning it. i didn't cut the brackets off the old shell when i scrapped it, so haven't fitted tem to my reshell.

alternatively, you can always run an adjustable blade front arb going forwards as BROM has before.

Rs Craig

laff at mike top secret mike do you use a rear strut brace also

CozzyBrom

zoo do the lot anti roll bar kits tca and comp struts
only really fit comp struts if going on track loads
how is your tyre wear mike running 2 deg neg ??????????
how long to they last

foreigneRS

you can see the compression struts fitted to the tca's here, and see that it is still possible to use the arb

http://www.suhe-motorsport.de/Optimierung-1.html

Mike Rainbird

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Craig,
No strut braces front or rear.

Brom,
Wear seems okay, as I mainly use the car on track and going to and from events etc.

markk

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i personally have and would use the compression struts on a road car , and never run silly poundage rates as that just due to inefficiant damping in you need to , but then i do pay good money for dampers !! - and i dont run arb's front or rear , as for how it handles - really crap - really really crap

Mike Rainbird

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Mark,
I know, Bob told me his Sapphire is faster .

CozzyBrom

zoo also do that stile bracket and rollbar set up but it makes the link bar very low to the floor

markk

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