INDY BIRD
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| posted on 12/7/06 at 03:44 PM |
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Blackbird corner weighted/setup
I had the car corner weighted and all the suspesion professionally set up today by a caterham race team.
what a difference this has made i also fitted r888 tyres to help.
the handling is crisper and the turn in much sharper. and they set the car up so 10mm height differerance from front end to back, which i must say has
made the car more stable at the 3 figures mark,+ have lost the under steer, roundabouts should be fun now.
while in the workshop i noticed some sierra diffs and as luck would have it they had a 3:38 bingo great just what i was looking for so yes you guessed
its in the car.
next stop the exhaust to be sorted and R/R.
god this is getting expensive??£££££££££££££££££££££
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Jon Ison
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| posted on 12/7/06 at 03:52 PM |
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I try too get this over too all that will listen, dyno the engine, flat floor the chassis, with 4 & 5 figure sums invested the cost is relatively
small and the difference in performance worlds apart.
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INDY BIRD
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| posted on 12/7/06 at 04:07 PM |
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Agree Jon
The price for the full setup including diff and fitting + the vat was £480 which i didnt think was to bad as i have seen 338 lsd go for anywhere
between £100 and
£300.
next bill is R/R + exhaust should be around another £5-600.
cheers
Sean
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greggors84
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| posted on 12/7/06 at 10:21 PM |
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What weight split should we be looking for from front to rear? Or is it just important to go for the 50:50 left to right?
Chris
The Magnificent 7!
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Ferrino
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| posted on 13/7/06 at 02:28 PM |
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Sean, may I ask what they/you set the tracking & camber to? I'm looking for ballpark settings to try, and wonder what effect the relatively
light front end would have on trakcing/camber choice (ie. to try and alleviate any understeer)?
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INDY BIRD
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| posted on 13/7/06 at 06:13 PM |
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sorry cannot tell you weight split will ask him when next see him and post on the site.
the camber was 1.5 deg neg on the rear and 1 deg on the front.
he put a small amount of toe on the front which i will have to ask what that was again will post here.
i must say the front is much better at higher speeds, my brothers zx12 which is not set up yet is very light on the front end very skittish at high
speeds.
the corner weight should help as he has taken my body weight into account aswell.
all up the car was around 460 kg wet with full tank of fuel.
cheers
sean
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