Stiffer Front End

[driversdomainuk 8]

Hi

 

I am running a 25mm ARB and 24mm TB at rear of my 205 Mi track car...front I have a tranx diff, a slightly fatter (think 309) front ARB) and spax "fast road" non-coil overs all around....

 

Car is great, but I do feel it still has a bit too much body roll when driving at limit, which of course is overloading the tyres a little too much and reducing my potential times....

 

I have considered getting coil overs with 300lb springs....but they aint cheap...

 

I need to know is there a cheaper way around this - fatter ARB front bar maybe? or if I want stiffness I need to coil over!

 

PS - have attahced a photo of it with new T16 graphics

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Thanks

Rob

[TT205 42]

Rob

 

You are in the wrong section - should be suspension etc!

 

Sounds like you have a seriously stiff rear end there but with a soft front end - I'd expect it to tripod like nobody's business, you getting snap oversteer?

 

I'm not familiar with the Spax fast road dampers but I would expect with coilovers you would certainly want 250+ lb springs

I'd forget the front arb until front and rear are nearer matched

[Baz 421]

Get rid of the Spax's, IMO they're well under-damped.

[driversdomainuk 8]

Rob

 

You are in the wrong section - should be suspension etc!

 

Sounds like you have a seriously stiff rear end there but with a soft front end - I'd expect it to tripod like nobody's business, you getting snap oversteer?

 

I'm not familiar with the Spax fast road dampers but I would expect with coilovers you would certainly want 250+ lb springs

I'd forget the front arb until front and rear are nearer matched

 

Sorry - did not think when posted LOL - in right section now!

 

Yes I am up on 3 wheels lots! snap oversteer - yes at times....

 

I am getting prices on Bilstein coilovers with 300lb springs - will I need to get bilstein rear dampers - or do u think due to the fat AB/TBs I will be stiff enough at the rear..?

[welshpug 1,655]

fitting bilstein rear dampers wont make the rear any stiffer, just improve the control of the torsion bars.

[ravydavy 0]

Sorry - did not think when posted LOL - in right section now!

 

Yes I am up on 3 wheels lots! snap oversteer - yes at times....

 

I am getting prices on Bilstein coilovers with 300lb springs - will I need to get bilstein rear dampers - or do u think due to the fat AB/TBs I will be stiff enough at the rear..?

Do you drive the vehicle on the road a lot?? mine has 350lb front springs on bilstein coilovers and its a pig on the road. track wonderful. you need to work out what your mainly using the car for.

[driversdomainuk 8]

Do you drive the vehicle on the road a lot?? mine has 350lb front springs on bilstein coilovers and its a pig on the road. track wonderful. you need to work out what your mainly using the car for.

 

 

The car is road legal - but has one seat, a battery where the passenger seat was and looks a mod prod car which should have arrived on a trailer!

 

Comfort on the road is ZERO importance - probably cover 200 miles a year on the road...It is basically a 100% competition focused car which can be driven to the track.....

 

Could I go to 400lb springs I wonder...?

Edited March 25, 2010 by driversdomainuk

[rescue dude 0]

The car is road legal - but has one seat, a battery where the passenger seat was and looks a mod prod car which should have arrived on a trailer!

 

Comfort on the road is ZERO importance - probably cover 200 miles a year on the road...It is basically a 100% competition focused car which can be driven to the track.....

 

Could I go to 400lb springs I wonder...?

 

 

Best person to ask this is our friend Ralph.

[driversdomainuk 8]

Best person to ask this is our friend Ralph.

 

I will - just need to avoid pot holes as they have a tendancy to shatter windscreens with those sort of springs in !!!

[TT205 42]

It is basically a 100% competition focused car which can be driven to the track.....

 

Could I go to 400lb springs I wonder...?

 

 

Bollocks just wrote a long reply to this and lost it

 

 

In brief - you haven't said what type of competition and most importantly what tyres you are goiung to use

 

Road tyres - 250-300

 

1b's or slicks >300

 

Also if you plan to do hillclimbs because of the tightness of the corners and the suddeness of changes of direction - softer works better - nice smooth track with sweeping bends - you can up the poundage

[Rippthrough 98]

I will - just need to avoid pot holes as they have a tendancy to shatter windscreens with those sort of springs in !!!

 

Only if you run out of damper travel and hit the bumpstops.