LMAO
You'll both wake up tomorrow lying on the garage floor, surrounded by Carling cans and bits of coilovers lol lol
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LMAO
You'll both wake up tomorrow lying on the garage floor, surrounded by Carling cans and bits of coilovers lol lol
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Originally Posted by trackdaynova
Surely you'll have to run a small spacer between Steering knuckle and rose joint - otherwise you'll have no up/down movement ?:confused:
Dave
Dave i'am surprised you can comment.
Its been that long since youv'e seen or worked on a Nova i'am surprised you even remember what they look like!!!!!!
Martin
Anything else come in the post?lol
Well today I woke up after not much sleep to find a parcel on my doorstep addressed to Olly "Slammed" Hewitt lol Thanks very much Benn for the foam pad for flatting down my panels - much appreciated! Rep+1 :thumb: :)
Dave - totally mate, we cut the spacers in half length ways and fitted them in between the knuckle & RJ :thumb:
I cannot thank James (CountVauxAlot) enough for his help yesterday, to cut a rather long and funny night short, he turned up at mine at 6pm, and departed at 03:10am this morning, although I did offer him a bed for the night, but I think he felt like he wouldn't be able to resist himself.
Woke up this morning to find a text on my phone saying "hi mate, home safe had a great time, right laugh x" looked at the time, 04:18am :eek:
Really enjoyed last night, although not everything went quite according to plan, but thats motorsport for you :thumb: lol
313lbs vs 285lbs vs 350lbs
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...ure/nc1127.jpg
Current topmount positioning
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...ure/nc1128.jpg
Target topmount positioning
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...ure/nc1129.jpg
On with the modifications, over to James who can saw like a bastid lol
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...ure/nc1130.jpg
his mahhooooosive 'Snap-On' half round snap on file made short work of my turrets
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...ure/nc1131.jpg
Cleaned up, wipe down, panel wiped, lick o paint
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...ure/nc1132.jpg
Looking good, retaining standard securing bolts holes
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...ure/nc1133.jpg
Spring seats on
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...ure/nc1134.jpg
Leg on, with shorter springs
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...ure/nc1135.jpg
New rosejointed TRE fitted to rack
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...ure/nc1136.jpg
Perfect filing by James meant it was look swish
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...ure/nc1137.jpg
The slight problem that we encountered, which we will overcome, that moving the top of the shocker (ie: topmount) inwards towards the bay wasn't ever going to move the spring away from the tyre wall. Because it the leg is attached to the hub/ wheel/ tyre at the bottom aswell lol
Excuse my crude drawing, but all we've basically done so far by moving the topmount inwards is this:
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...ure/nc1138.jpg
The suspension leg / wheel / tyre distance is obviously still identical, just made me now run -3° negative camber, which isn't so much of a problem, as I can wind in the rosejoints on my TCAs, to bring the bottom of the wheel and bottom ball joint in aswell, which I may do.
But obviously this doesn't cure the clearence problems when running 888s or slicks, Rainsports aren't, and never would be a problem.
So now I intend on getting my suspension leg holes elongated with a diegrinder, so it will enable my leg to lean inwards, but my wheel & hub to remain at -1.5° camber, like so:
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q...ure/nc1139.jpg
After they've been elongated, and I've got the full positioning that I want, I would welkd a washer around the new hole, thus changing the bolt holes really :thumb:
I never realised what you were actually doing lol
Moving the top mount position is a fix that people do to reduce/change camber(usually re-drilling the turret holes), which youve now found out
didnt Krobinson do a simlar thing with his holes on his old NDZ front chocks?
lookin good
saw you log on at about 3 this morning olly but didnt think you had only just come in lol. fair play tho.
taking a hacksaw to the top mounts takes some balls aswell