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wanna race big boy

bet it goes roond corners great with nae understeer jac geo

hoi i am 53 and still breathing and without a zimmer ,good on the auld yin go ahead and join up m8 we can still show these young yins a thing or two ////and i can still outdrive most of the young guns out there geo

about the subaru badge ,no nice ,car looking GREAT shelly you now got the bug if youll pardon the pun need you now to get it handling cheers geo

hi m8 if you go for coil overs and go too low you can suffer bump steer on compression .this can be cured by fitting a roll center adjusting kit which is 2 ball joints and 2 track rod ends that are modified to combat the problem you can always go for a good set of road springs and pillowball top mounts that give you the ability to adjust camber /caster piccs below underster can be eliminated by ,first rear rollbar then anti lift kit ,to give 0.5 deg extra caster pics below front bar is also a good handling mod 24mm rear 22mm front alloy drop links also to cope with the increase in roll stiffness the key to the handling is camber/caster control bump and rebound settings /spring rates roll stiffness shore hardness of bushes (poly) the ability to keep the geo settings within spec at all times cheers geo

hi m8 we run 15% max with shell op max ,no problems with it cheers geo

looking good mate geo

hi bal /i dont like coil overs on a road car( imho) there to harsh for my tastes but you can find a good compromise using sti bits and after market bits to get the qualities you require.now if your talking track car thats a different ball game ,doing that too . remember that most of us older guys will be letting our wifes drive the car ,and you dont want her always moaning that the car rattles ,klonks and vibrates all the time .we are looking for a balance between power and handling ,or at least i want that sti feel back without breaking the bank cheers geo

cal if you are going to restore a car dont use underseal m8 .wax the car .underseal allows water under it and then it falls off and you got problems i always coat and inject my cars with merc wax inc driveshafts, hubs, struts, brake pipes etc one of my old cars a seat now 7 years old, that i still see every year for mot and checkover is like new underneath mot guy says he cant believe how good it looks for its age cheers geo

well i have been to the same bit of road in the wet and dry no problems this time went round at the same speed no worries ,then increased the entry speed by 5 mph ,still here 10 still here 15 mph guess what ,yes still here . the locals in the area were gettin very up set as this loud white subaru was passing the farms and houses many times within 40 mins so i made a quick getaway before the cops were called, would not have looked good in the local press (ex police fleet manager reported for annoying locals and sheep )lol anyway the car handled great but still much more room for improvement ,springs too soft ,ride height too high ,needs anti lift kit or maybe top mounts to give me more caster /camber,also the car is under tyred needs more rubber and more offset watch this space cheers geo

hi welsho, theres one of your problems your tyre combo falkins and reo 70s ,you should never run 2 different tyres to gether(seen your driving m8 you need all the help you can get lol) these tyres have different handling qualities alltogether ,they would be fighting each other ,at least give the suspension a chance to work bud bet if you had reo,s all round it would have been different here is a wee guide to anti roll bars 20mm rear bar produces more front end grip, more neutral handling, reduction in very fast corner roll oversteer. 22mm rear bar produces more front end grip, more neutral handling, reduction of roll oversteer and allows driver to induce wash-out oversteer easier. 24mm rear bar produces all of the above but makes oversteer even easier. 22mm front and 24mm rear bars produces a lot more grip with neutral handling and induceable oversteer. To allow this set up to produce the extra grip, decent tyres are needed.,seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee theres your problem 24mm front and 27mm rear bars produces similar effects as 22/24mm front and rear bars, but needs racing tyres to work well. because you are running c/overs you need to fit a roll centre adjustment kit ,to reduce bump steer and give extra front grip cheers geo

ok here is what you req to get better handling no 1 anti lift kit //if you are doing track days a lot, motorsport bushes no 3 24mm rear arb no 4 22mm front arb no5 roll centre adjust kit no 6 pineapple bushes diff control (poly no 7 steering rack bushes (poly no 8 top mounts uniball type for extra adjustment for camber or caster//to fit std struts no9 diff subframe lock kit /the rear subframe can move under extreme conditions,that locks it in place ,no more rear end wandering no10 under car brace ,to strenghten up the bottom suspension points here are some piccs of the bits on kevs type r anti lift kit pineapple bushes steering rack bushes roll centre adjust kit 2 ball joints 2 track rod ends the diff lock kit under brace top mounts this will make your car a handling monster,without going to coil overs you could also drop the ride height another 15mm lower than p/drive springs then if you want to go to the next level you can do all the car with motorsport poly bushes,and adjustable track arms (acid has them on his car) hope this helps m8 , need any other info just ask cheers geo

good yin bud geo

hi there the rear arb if 24mm will sort out the problem by allowing the front to grip more do you have an alk fitted and or coil overs get back to me geo

2 out of the three piccs are sti not wrx i would no buy a wrx either, yuk rather have a barratt hoose ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, sti rules ya bas

he he geo

sorry m8 i misread your post ,yea see it now.//// more front grip will only give you oversteer when driving to a point that the rear tyres loose grip ,usually when driving fast beyond the limit of adhesion . i hate the dreaded understeer ,love oversteer. with front end grip being enhanced the driving pleasure becomes greater ,more in control. when doing accident inv i saw more cars that had been in accidents caused by understeering than oversteering that drivers could not control. again sorry for missreading your post cheers geo

sorry m8 but that was just you mind playing tricks with your sencess .the top strut mountings dont move that much the opposite should happen ,the strut brace should promote more front end grip if it stiffens up the top mounts . handling on a unitary construction bodyshell is only as good as the torsional regidity of the shell ,ie if the shell twists as the suspension loads up ,the result is poor handling .thats why top rally teams and good rally car or race saloon builders build a roll cage that have multi pick up points througout the shell. they all locate to the rear suspension turrets and front top mounts as well to feed suspension loads into them like a space frame inside the car. the stronger the bodyshell is the better the handling, the longer the shell will last and give driver and co driver more protection in an accident . cars now are made out of H.S.L.A.S, thats High Strength Low Alloy Steel, for low weight and as much strength as possible .a ring cage is put in at the design stage to give regidity and passenger crash protection the classic subaru now getting on in years needs all the help it can get hence roll cages strut braces under braces all play a part in our performance tunning ,corrossion and old age can affect the ability of the shell to do its job., next time you are in a scrapyard lookin for bits have a look at some of the older cars and look at how the corrossion has weakend the structure of the bodyshell cheers geo

your takin the piss now aint ya lol

here is but a few of my past years of building model cars you have just made my sons mind up he is now going to build a model of his typr-r this model took me 120 hours to build its a tamiya mazda race car with super detailing under the bonnet the peugeots were a experement with halfords spray cans ,how to fade in colours dont have much time to build now ,but i will get back to it someday cheers geo

dont want to argue with you m8 but i have 37 years experience in the motor trade .i lectured in vehicle construction/accident investigation for 20 years at tulliallan police college , wrote a book while there on the effects of impact on motor cars when collisions take place . i have attended seminars with ford ,rover, vauxhall on vehicle deformation when i retired from spc i worked with a accident inv firm called incinalisis .my roll was do a full examination of the car to determin what was the cause of the accident , working out deformation of bodyshells ,we could work out vehicle speeds at time of collision i was lucky enough to be invited to the seminars in austria ,twice held in lintz at the workshops of the firm that does more accident invesigation than even our own TRRL ,they wrote the computer programs ,and hold the patent to PC Crash computer system that brittish police now use .mercedes, porsche ford and many other car companys take info from them i dont want to get into a slagging match with you ,but a strut brace is not strong enough to cause that damage to your bodyshell , the brace would deform before it would feed those kind of loads into the strut area , there must have another reason for the problem cheers geo

the strut brace is there to help put strength between the strut tops under normal cornering conditions its the 3 sides of a box syndrome 3 sides = flex add top fixture to give strength thats what a strut brace does the brace is not that strong that it would kink your chassis ie top munts or inner wings geo

they have got to help i recon but most of the crud inside the engine aint magnetic,so the filter shouldretain it but it will catch all magnetic particles which is a bonus . i just changed urabus engine oil in his rb5 and checked it for metal particles, clean bill of health .he was well pleased geo

hi m8 ,how do you recon that your strut brace twister the chassis ,go no tell us bud .or are you just having a laugh cheers geo