Looow Euro nova help please!!

[Mcgowan]

I need some help with the camber on the front of my saloon, it's lowered 100mil on 15Inch Porsche teledials with 165 stretched tires the only problem i'm having is i've only had the tires on a week and the insides already look a bit dodgy, it's lowered using just springs and standard shockers but now i have severe camber issues and don't know how to sort it, can someone help me please!!???

[AlexW]

Adjustable top mounts or camber bolts.

I have the latter on my corsa and they have been fine, Not had any "hit pothole, bolt came lose" scene like some people suggest.

Edit: Have you had the tracking done since being lowered? That will do more damage than camber will.

[steviegsi]

Mcgowan - sorry i can't help with your problem but could you put some pics up of your car? As it looks awesome in my head?:thumb:

[Spudly]

Mcgowan - sorry i can't help with your problem but could you put some pics up of your car? As it looks awesome in my head?:thumb:




Here is the only picture i have of Al's loon, this was a few days before he fitted the ghey porsche wheels...


http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a36/spudly01/Cars/20122010498.jpg




Ali, your problem is the fact its sooo low on non camber adjustable dampers, you need either coilovers and or camber bolts, or you could pikey it by dropping your strut off, and elongating the top hole where the hub bolts into the leg, this way you can nip the nuts up when you refit it, and slide the top bolt out a little and straighten up the camber of the wheel, it sounds pikey but FK coilovers have a slotted top hole to allow this so i dont think it would be too pikey to do it yourself lol

[shed-on-wheels]

as said by spudly he took the words right out of my mouth lol

[steviegsi]

Cheers spud. I've a strange urge for a 2 door loon this past few weeks..... I feel ashamed :(

[mowgli]

or you could pikey it by dropping your strut off, and elongating the top hole where the hub bolts into the leg, this way you can nip the nuts up when you refit it, and slide the top bolt out a little and straighten up the camber of the wheel, it sounds pikey but FK coilovers have a slotted top hole to allow this so i dont think it would be too pikey to do it yourself lol

you might think it is pikey, but it was actually in the gm service manual as the method of sorting out camber issues.

[Spudly]

Well i thought id call it the pikey method before anyone else jumped on me for saying it lol



Steviegsi, he has been a very jammy git with that loon, it has 20k from new on it when he bought it, it was local to us for years and it was parked on the petrol station forecourt next to the old guys house for years until some n00bs tried to steal it, got it wrong and burnt out the wiring loom, it was written off and some guy bought it as a repairable and did nothing with it, its been sat in a garage forgotten about until he got it, i wont say how much he got it for but it was cheap, ten mins after he got it home i offered him double what he had paid for it and he refused cos he is ghey:cry:

[Andy]

lmfao at 100mm drop on standard dampers lol lol
Elongate the top hole and try that,when you get it summat like,weld the washer to the stut to keep it there,mine moved after a while on my old coilovers so welded it and it stayed.

[John]

pics on porka rims required!

[Spudly]

Ill go find him tomorrow and get some pics John, ive not seen it yet so im yet to be convinced on it in all fairness!





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Andy i hope youre not shocked @ the -110mm on standard shocks, this is Alistair you know lol

[Mcgowan]

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g209/Phil_si2000/01012011315.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g209/Phil_si2000/01012011317.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g209/Phil_si2000/01012011318.jpg
http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g209/Phil_si2000/28122010305.jpg

[General Baxter]

that looks **** lol

[Mike]

Awesomeness IMO.

[Mcgowan]

that looks **** lol

Now now jealosy gets you nowhere!!lol lol lol

[General Baxter]

:roll:

[Spudly]

You never said they were white, that actually looks mint, you git lol

[General Baxter]

i think they just dont suit it

[Mcgowan]

i think they just dont suit it

See there y'go, Thats a lot more polite! :thumb:

[Andy]

an early sport type bumper and that will look the bollox.
Very nice

[Mark]

Not feeling them in white.

[LEWI007]

It doesnt look 'Euro' at all...

Polished rims would look better imo.

[Mcgowan]

an early sport type bumper and that will look the bollox.
Very nice

I agree that would look pretty sweet but the loon grilles are pretty rare so i think it's stayin on an i'm gonna custom make a lower valance for it :thumb:

[Spudly]

Please dont wreck it Al, that looks really good as is!

[Jack]

Wouldn't have said that looks euro style.

Not really my cup of tea tbh.

[Balley]

i think they just dont suit it

aggreed mate, would suit a corsa more. Nova's are to square!

[L14MNP]

I have to join in here. It looks OK. Not my style, but certainly not the worst I have seen.

However I am sick of people thinking they are lauding their otherwise cheapass/standard/slow/boring cars over others just because they got a set of ebay coilovers, some spacers and a set of Porsche rims.

I don't get why jealousy should be felt by anyone. :roll:

It's mostly the t0ssers that run tiny engined Golfs and Polos that seem to think they are a cut above, and why?

Yes, wheels make the car, but that doesn't mean it's all it needs to be awesome. Some look great and need little else, but I always find the less people do the more they want their e-dick sucked!

It boils my p!ss. lol

[LEWI007]

Thats it in words like Liam.

Im wondering how and why german tuning is becoming popular here though, whatever happened to Fiesta XR2's with spotlights and pepperpots lol

[Mcgowan]

I have to join in here. It looks OK. Not my style, but certainly not the worst I have seen.

However I am sick of people thinking they are lauding their otherwise cheapass/standard/slow/boring cars over others just because they got a set of ebay coilovers, some spacers and a set of Porsche rims.

I don't get why jealousy should be felt by anyone. :roll:

It's mostly the t0ssers that run tiny engined Golfs and Polos that seem to think they are a cut above, and why?

Yes, wheels make the car, but that doesn't mean it's all it needs to be awesome. Some look great and need little else, but I always find the less people do the more they want their e-dick sucked!

It boils my p!ss. lol

I know what you mean mate, i've only put the pics on because someone requested them not to say look at this it's ace because it is basically standard with wheels!lol it is however nowhere near finished to be fair i haven't even started on it really!lol :thumb:

[stevie-p]

all to do with this ''scene'' one person does something new and differant and everybody follows will be the same all comes and goes............

http://i335.photobucket.com/albums/m444/thelupogti/editionsig.jpg

[L14MNP]

I know what you mean mate, i've only put the pics on because someone requested them not to say look at this it's ace because it is basically standard with wheels!lol it is however nowhere near finished to be fair i haven't even started on it really!lol :thumb:

I didn't mean you personally mate. :thumb:

When I was driving the Volvo in the summer I rounded a corner (legally) and some little punk in a 9N Polo on D90's/roofbox/stickers and the obligatory floppy hat took his eyes completely off the road and was just fixated on my Superlites.

I bet he couldn't even tell you the colour of the car they were on, let alone what it was.

All they see is WHEEEEEEELSSS! lol

[burgo]

they look like ford wheels lol. i know the ford ones are 4 holes but still, never good lol

[dj_wudgey]

i think they look pretty good needs to be lower at the front though!!!

[Derick-Sport]

slots or d90s are the only porsche wheels that suit a nova IMO teledials look to modern for the mk1 back to the future front end

[L14MNP]

they look like ford wheels lol. i know the ford ones are 4 holes but still, never good lol

BOOM!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/Ford_Escort_MKIII_XR3i_front_20090115.jpg

Clover leafs FTW. One of several OEM wheels I swore never to like. Another is the Nova 3 spoke! lol Times change!

[dj_wudgey]

those ford rims are awfull my mates storing a set in my shed i want to give thm to the jipo's every time i see them lol

[Spudly]

those ford rims are awfull my mates storing a set in my shed i want to give thm to the jipo's every time i see them lol





You will probably find yourself in debt to him for a hell of a lot of dollar, there used to be an original XR3 down my street years back and they got taken off the car one night and the guy never found a replacement set, iirc he lost heart in the car and weighed it a year later, twas a suffix Y reg (i think) and was rot free aswell:eek:


Theyre rarer than clean original un-ringed, un-restored nova sports from what i gather!

[L14MNP]

Sure they weren't RS1600i wheels John? (lol)

Even those shouldn't have been that hard to find though. Saying that, imagine how many sets of 'ugly' clover leafs have been fragged over the years!

I'd totally rock a boog mk3 XR3i now!

[Spudly]

I'd totally rock a boog mk3 XR3i now!



Ummmm, lack of ford knowledge here but wouldnt a mk3 be and XR3 and an XR3i be a mk4?

[L14MNP]

83 onwards IIRC are injection dude.

[dj_wudgey]

You will probably find yourself in debt to him for a hell of a lot of dollar, there used to be an original XR3 down my street years back and they got taken off the car one night and the guy never found a replacement set, iirc he lost heart in the car and weighed it a year later, twas a suffix Y reg (i think) and was rot free aswell:eek:


Theyre rarer than clean original un-ringed, un-restored nova sports from what i gather!

there fooked matey lol absolutely fooked!!! and spud your right mk3 are xr3's and they did the rs1600 in the mk3 aswell xr3i's are mk4!!!

[L14MNP]

spud your right mk3 are xr3's and they did the rs1600 in the mk3 aswell xr3i's are mk4!!!


Oi! lol mk3 are both XR3 and XR3i. The RS1600 is a mk1. The Rs1600i is a mk3 machine :p . Obviously mk4's are XR3i's,

You're making me wonder now! lol. Time to see what the book of lies says. lol

[davidfox280585]

Ummmm, lack of ford knowledge here but wouldnt a mk3 be and XR3 and an XR3i be a mk4?
do a mk3 in both spud though the xr3 seems toe be more rare than the xr3i,
i have a mk3 xr3i at the mo cabby for spares for my rs and just sold a set of cloverleafs,6xwheels £49.99,there not worth a gerat deal:)

kinda like nova mk2 1.4sr 1.4sri

[dj_wudgey]

Oi! lol mk3 are both XR3 and XR3i. The RS1600 is a mk1. The Rs1600i is a mk3 machine :p . Obviously mk4's are XR3i's,

You're making me wonder now! lol. Time to see what the book of lies says. lol

yea you know what i meant rs1600i's are mk3 lol!! id love a rs1600 though rwd ftw!!!

[bazil]

Me brother had a sunburst red XR3, twin choke weber carb and 4 speed box he got a set of genuine RS1600I 7 spokes for it too, was a really good motor.