No problemo !!Quote:
Originally Posted by driftescort
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No problemo !!Quote:
Originally Posted by driftescort
Small update, my front T1Rs were getting a bit low so when I saw someone selling a used but good pair of 215/40/17 Advan AD08 Neovas I snapped them up.
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/h...ps8149483a.jpg
Looking forward to getting them on and seeing what they are like. A lot of the Japanese drivers seem to use them so they can't be too bad.
If anyone wants a pait of 215/40/17 T1Rs just hitting the wear markers cheap give me a shout! :)
Well it has been a while since I updated this, not a lot has changed with the largest change being in my circumstances as me and the car are now back in Ireland.
I will miss all my friends and driving the tracks in the UK but moving back to Ireland means I have full workshop facilities so I can really get some work done to the car, good news :D
So I knew it was going to be a nightmare getting the car on the boat so I raised it considerably for the drive back, I also basically filled it up with my life:
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/h...pse5459959.jpg
The journey was pretty much all through the night so the roads were pretty clear which was fine. The car JUST got on the boat even though I raised it a lot. It was so bad that once on the boat I couldn't drive round to where everyone else was parked so the R32 got its own VIP parking space!:
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/h...ps964b08fa.jpg
and proof that I finally got back to Ireland ;)
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/h...psa6f05e33.jpg
After driving it around quite high for a week or so I set about getting it down as low as it was before (well lower actually. I also had a pair of 9KG springs I had sourced from Tein that I wanted to fit to my front superdrifts to stiffen up the front of the car a bit so got them fitted:
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/h...ps95d64e6d.jpg
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/h...ps32c9e0b2.jpg
Lower:
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/h...ps82282985.jpg
After this I decided it was time for a freshen up. Mostly I want to clean up the bodywork as it is really bugging me how crap it looks (as well as trying to get it ready for my brother's wedding in October) so with that I stripped all the aero off it that needed repairing and repainting:
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/h...ps7ab91400.jpg
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/h...ps85e4340b.jpg
Something else I wanted to address was my lack of rear grip, for an easy life in the UK I had quite a lot of negative camber dialled in on the rear I wanted to set this to somewhere near zero camber, I wanted to do this now as I had a feeling that with the aggressive offset my rear wheels have that I may have to do some body work mods in order to have enough room for the tyres.
I don't have any pictures but I was certainly right about needing further arch work as with 225s fitted the tyre looks to be protruding about 30mm from the overfender and I want to be able to fit 265s! I am going to have to get my thinking cap on for this one!
I have also run into another problem in that at the height I want to run the car at as well as running zero camber my camber arms are hitting my coil overs badly, this may have something to do with having a S14 rear subframe fitted and I have been told that S14 rear camber arms may fix the problem so I am going to try a pair of them and see if it fixes the problem.
More updates on the way soon hopefully.
So I got a bit of spare time the other day and decided to see what I could do to get the wheels/tyres to fit.
This is what I started with, the wheel was at near on zero camber:
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/h...ps32fbeb06.jpg
Thing is that is only with a 225, I am hoping to use these wheels and tuck a 265 at zero camber......challenge.
So I unscrewed my overfenders (screwing them on was the best idea EVER!) and basically 'pinched' the overfender to push it out further and see if it gave me enough clearance:
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/h...pse8e10c20.jpg
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/h...psad44fa80.jpg
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/h...ps4892d91f.jpg
So that is how it is sitting at the moment, as you can see the change in camber has raised the rear a lot and I can't drop it down until I get some S14 camber arms but it seems to be giving enough room, whether I like the look of it or not is a different matter though. That is only with a 225 though, I have to get a 265 mounted on at least one of the rear wheels and see how that fits...........
Great stuff! Keep it up, love this car! Great Job
Looks savage billy....ur goina have some job trying to fit the 265 tyres though.
Love this car when it's all painted and shiny !
I finally got some time to work on the car the other day so I decided to try and zero the camber on the rear whilst getting the car sitting at a height I was happy with.
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/h...psa3721f17.jpg
Ths is a crap pic I took before I took off the R32/S13 camber arm to try and show the problem I was having with the camber arm, basically to lower the car more I would need to drop the spring seat you can see in the picture but then the camber arm would come in contact with the spring/spring seat so that was not going to work. I think this must have something to do with having the S14 rear subframe fitted.
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/h...ps9440b24f.jpg
Quick comparison picture of the old arms and the new S14/R33 ones I picked up
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/h...psfb2ec68a.jpg
This is a picture of the new arms fitted, to be honest clearence is still a bit of an issue but just not as much and I think it will work. At the moment if I jack up the car the wheel only droops to the point of the spring seat hitting the camber arm, it is not ideal and to adjust the coilover with the wheel off I have to jack up the suspension so the spring seat is not sitting on the camber arm anymore.
It is a bit strange and I am sure it has become more of an issue for me as I want to run zero camber whilst being pretty low but there does not seem to be any contact once the car is on the ground so I suppose it will be ok. I think rear Geomasters may help the situation but I can not afford them right now.
Anyway I stuck a skirt back on to see where the car now sat:
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/h...psa495c693.jpg
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/h...ps5bc1a53d.jpg
http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/h...ps6100e666.jpg
The car is filthy and the bodywork still needs sorting but I am pretty happy with the way it is sitting, that is zero camber on the rear wheel (well actually even a tiny bit of positive) I am determined to make it work as a drift car at this height and I think that seems pretty achievable now.
As you may be able to see I have had to pull the overfender out a lot to make the camber/height/wheel offset all work with each other and I am not sure yet how I feel on the look of that but I can't really see any other option if I want to continue to use the KFs.
Also that is only a 225 fitted to the back and ideally I want to be able to run a 265, next step is to get 265s fitted and see what I am working with then.
Such a cool car!!!
Haha holy god best of luck driving Down that road of urs never mind the rest of the Irish roads lol love the desecration to have it low doh