Car looks good dude, hows the saab anti roll bar ive just ordered one of these also?
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Car looks good dude, hows the saab anti roll bar ive just ordered one of these also?
Yeah seems alright! I'm waiting for a dry day to do back to back session tests with no arb, astra one and the saab one to check the difference though! Been raining since I fitted it but it hasn't made it tail happy in the wetQuote:
Originally Posted by Gav
Well, this car is still being worked on and improved.
The engine has gradually been burning more and more oil. The bullet was my mate saying actual pieces of oil were hitting his windscreen behind me. Suspicion was stem seals so off comes the head:
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Definite signs of oil burning:
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16 Elring stem seals fitted, and a bit of valve lapping while there:
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ARP head studs so I felt like there was a point to yet another engine strip down:
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Fitting them. SBD instructions say you need 5mm spacers on a late head which is 74mm deep. With the provided washer it's pretty close to the end of the threads, so I fitted the ARP washer, OE washer and ARP nut to ensure I was in the middle of the thread:
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Done, never to be seen again:
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Test drive seems pretty good, it definitely smells less so fingers crossed.
Bit of preventitive maintenance for once, Wilwood caliper rebuild.
Technique was get a piece of wood and pressurise the caliper with an airline to get the pistons out most of the way:
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Seals pretty good, pistons very bad. Caught it in time.
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New pistons from RallyDesign are a way nicer design - cast then machined OD. Look way better made than the old ones:
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8 new seals and pistons fitted, bolted back on and bled with Motul 660 fluid.
Also rocking a single carbon kevlar Cobeau now:
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Car weighs in at 820kg with over 20L of fuel.
Trackdays are running again so booked onto Mallory at August.
You have friends??Quote:
Originally Posted by Iain
One.
Nice update. Hopefully the engine can stay together now until the end of the season!
Loving a bit of carbon/kevlar :cool: Was gutted to have to sell the corb rev ones I had, but just don't fit with the red tunnel:(
I bullied him into getting it, along with removing his passenger seat for added race car ed ness.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Simps
I'm playing with this bumper idea, I'm 50/50 whether to carry on or scrap it.
Proper ropey, basically scrap GSi bumper
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The edges were cut off for wheel clearance, which just looked terrible once fitted:
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I was torn between a few ideas, but the top is basically the same between povo and GSi, so I thought I'd try making a GSi "Alpina style bolt on valance" from it:
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This is it bolted to a spare povo mk2 bumper which is pretty much cut away to just be the upper part and sides:
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Quite happy with the fit into the existing swage line:
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Not 100% sure on the lip it's left here, but I guess that was inevitable:
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Hmmmm.
So I’m assuming you don’t need the end trimmed for wheel clearance any more then?
On a related note, when you’re adding in castor on your setup, how much movement forward in the arch can you get? Are you bottom arms on rj’s to allow it to angle?
Hey Simps,
We're both running the fully adjustable front wishbones, with RJ's on the bottom arm and on the tie rod.
Iain will have some better pictures than me but I can get some if you're interested to see.
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From my old nova shell, best I could find!!
The reason for asking is that for mine car I’ll be running full rj’d nissan arms etc and ideally would like to add quite a bit of caster and potentially move the wheel forward in the arch.
I was more curious as to roughly how much the wheel could be moved forward - 10mm? 20mm? And whether you find it eats rj’d because of the angle they are under??
Ah ok mate, I've never actually looked at how far it's moved the wheel forward over standard, I'll ask Ben and see what he says, I know that I've not used a set of RJ's in 3 years of them being on the car.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Simps
I think our limiting factor is driveshaft angle, bumper clearance and not RJ angle. I'm about to get mine 4 wheel aligned and I'm get 5 degrees of caster and get some photos of the RJ angle.
That would be cool, thanks.Quote:
Originally Posted by House
I need to start thinking about setting my position in the arch and building the arches soon, so trying to get it all figured out!
Course mate, I'll see what we can sort out for youQuote:
Originally Posted by The Simps
I never trimmed it to begin with, my wheel has taken out a section of my current bumper from rubbing but nowhere near enough to warrant that sort of trimming!Quote:
Originally Posted by The Simps
As House says, RJs are perfectly happy where they are. Shaft angles seem pretty happy too as we've gained castor both on the topmount and the tie rod. Limiting factors seem to be bodywork, although I recall my mate's mk2 Astra the shaft rubbed a hole in the oil cooler sandwich plate so watch out there too.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Simps
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Great info, thank you! I can see the wheel is well forward in the arch.Quote:
Originally Posted by Iain
With mine being rwd I don’t have shaft issues. I’ve set my engine & therefore subframe quite far back which means so does the suspension. I’d done this “assuming” I could centralise the wheel again with castor.
Is the rear arb you have fitted come from ebay?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/182032468899
And have you attached it with clamps?
Duh, RWD project, of course no shaft issues! Haha. I guess the concern is you end up with too much caster to put the wheel in the middle of the arch.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Simps
Yeah that looks like the one. It's the same fitment as a mk2 Astra ARB. I've welded some captive nuts in box section along where it was reqiuired to bolt at either end, no support required in the middleQuote:
Originally Posted by C16xe
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As Iain says my only worry would be too much castor, I've run 4 degrees and the thing steers itself and corrects itself when you loose the rear (bonus)Quote:
Originally Posted by The Simps
Not sure how much would be too much!!
I don't think we use much past 5 degrees but again that's due to space constraints.
Be interesting to see how this works out.
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Originally Posted by House
Stock Nissan S14s (what I'm running) have c6-7deg castor as stock I believe. Like you said - will be interesting to see where I can end up!
Some great work!
Would love a proper rear ARB for my Nova without the need for all the modification & and the price of a H&R item :eek:
Cavalier one is bolt on using universal clamps and brackets, I've got one on my spare beam if you want photos for inspiration - PM me your number if you want a few pics.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nova_Tek
Could I have a few pics of the setup please Iain, have thought about adding another rear anti roll bar if it’s not so good on the back endQuote:
Originally Posted by Iain
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Found some pics of the Cav ARB here: http://www.pngclub.com/forum/showthr...=1#post2230311
Spot on cheersQuote:
Originally Posted by Iain
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Which Cav is the ARB from?Quote:
Originally Posted by Iain
I always thought they had to be modded to fit, never new they were direct with some choice clamps!
I think it's a mk3?? I think some people modified the end brackets, drilled, welded etc, but yes that's the original end clamp+bush, half clipped over the edge and secured with a small bolt.
It's copyrighted though, so you owe me if you do it too.
mk3 really? If I'd had known I'd have removed the rear arb from a 2.0 hatch I scrapped a few years back.
If I see a cheap one I'll nab it :thumb:
Few tweaks, now I'm running one seat I've removed the footrest and remounted the battery on the floor:
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I also made a helmet/steering wheel hook from some ally bar:
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The GSi "frankenbumper" is complete, I'm kinda digging it. The prep and paint finish on the extension is horrible after having to attack the whole thing with a DA and various powertools, god knows what it was painted with but it reacted with everything. But "trackcar".
Old paint be gone:
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There were several cracks along the bottom of this bumper from a hard life, I removed the ally rivetted plates and used a plastic stapler instead which does a pretty good job of repairing the crack but staying flexible:
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Quick mock up, should work....
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Povo mk2 with some small modifications to take the extension:
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The bumper is attached by 4 self tapping torx screws on either side, and neatly cable ties to the original attachments of the povo bumper at the bottom:
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Finished (bar removal for a repaint when I can be bothered):
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Fancy!
So is it really the same as a gsi bumper now? i.e. it's not deeper or anything like that?
Why didnt you use the whole gsi bumper?
Basically the same shape on the outside, except it steps out a little more after the swuage line and it's got a bit more material around the toweye. Could have been an option to drop it down to make it deeper but there'd have been another join line.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Simps
Hi sausage. I only did this cos someone had cut the wing lips off an original GSi bumper and it looked terrible, otherwise ther'es literally no point. In hindsight I could have probably added some edges on with way less effort and used the whole thing complete - oh well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Benn
And you had fun making it!Quote:
Originally Posted by Iain
He didn't believe me!!! HahahahaQuote:
Originally Posted by The Simps
Mallory 12/08/2020 pics
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Video of a few laps where I stole House's vbox for data overlay goodness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-J11VnsXLY&t=56s
Mallory spat an awful lot of gearbox oil out the breather, turns out I've got an aftermarket turret gasket which is missing the baffle plate.
Topran part number 206568 gets you a nice metal reinforced OE spec turret gasket.
Before:
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After:
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Last session and my gear linkage was getting really sloppy too. Kept hitting 3rd instead of 5th. Here you can see the standard pin that holds the nylon of the linkage to the selector has worn from the movement:
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Even with a new one there was still too much slop, so the long term solution is an M6 bolt, 8mm OD alloy tube gently sanded to be a snug fit into the gear linkage nylon. When you tighten the nut and bolt it clamps the sleeve tight (like a crush tube), leaving absolutely zero play.
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