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D'oh! Yes I remember seeing the brackets in your WIP. I was getting all sorts of clunks, groans and creaks which I initially thought was the poly bushes. Sounded like a duck quacking down the street!
My new bearings were about £35 the pair from Rollerball Bearings in Nottingham which was a fair amount cheaper than Protec replacements. Hopefully the part number above will help you source some locally if you do need new ones.
Good work!
Whats the max you can adjust with those camber bolts??? -/+ 1deg or so???
I STILL need to borrow that camber tool!!! lol
1.5 deg max adjustment
Just taken it for a test drive, the front end is MEGA twitchy with this new setup but it digs into corners lovely.
Also the passenger side shaft is still falling out, ANY ideas please post them in the following thread as I'm panicking for Thursday's trackday! http://www.pngclub.com/forum/showthr...-leaking/page2
Back from Donington, another success story with caveats. lol
The new geometry setup didn't really work that well, does anyone know if crossply tyres like camber? It didn't seem as stable and predictable on the edge compared to before. I'll be going back to 1 deg neg camber as it's unusable on the roads too!
Despite that I think I managed a best lap of around 1:29-1:30? Video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNHTLpdWdY0
And a few mishaps during the day, first was an epic drifto moment as it started raining, second was Coxy putting me off in the Radical and me completely missing the corner and falling off the track ROFL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVsXeemEqzI
And the day ended 15 minutes early as my backbox sheared off! Just went really raspy mid lap as it snapped!
http://iainel.co.uk/images/forums/NovaWIP2a/636.JPG
Good times lol
Well done Iain, this car is immense, handles awesome. Anyone who says an xe in a nova ruins handling etc is talking utter rubbish as this thing is unbelievable in the bends :)
Shame about the exhaust but at least it happened right at the end of the day
Nice one iain
got some stiff exhaust hangers then lol, you getting a new system or welding that back on?
damn ashley exhausts always like snapping lol
Glad it's not just me then Mieran! Gonna weld it back together, it's not corroded just cracked clean between the backbox and the system join.
The rear box is on a polybush but the middle is back on original rubbers since it melted two pairs of poly middles. There's no flexi in the system so its under a fair amount of strain throughout I imagine.
epic save on that drift, bet that got your heart racing.
+rep