Sway Bars

[boxhead]

Sounds good to me Phil

[jess]

Phil you are the man
thanks heaps for organising this i'll give michael a ring tommorow and order one of him this is the last major part i need before i can take it to get engineered can't wait had a few test drives in the driveway and it feeels awesome need a proper alignment before i take it on the road although it looks a bit dorky at the moment with the increased ride height so the rego kit exhaust meets ground clearance specs
one thing i have noticed dont know if you guys have experienced the same thing but it appears that i have more rear camber adjustment on the right than i do on the left i cheked this with a camber caster gauge but i did not have it on turntables although i did roll it back and forth to release any tension in the tyres and bushes would be intrested in your thoughts or you guys experienced any issues regarding wheel alignment
cheers
jess

[Philm]

HI Jess,
My car is the same, the rear camber adjuster is in a totally different position on opposite sides.

I have had no problem with wheel alignment as I think it is still in the required range.


Phil

[pneall]

Jess, Yeah what Phil M said.

The single biggest change ( apart from the edit) to my Cobra was getting the wheel alignment right. It went from" what have I done' to "this is great".

There is still work to be done as the rear still has a lot of bump steer built in.

Have you dropped the steering rack? I put 20 mm spacers between the rack and mounting points and this definitely gets rid of droop steer.

I'll get the front bar off tonight and get it to Pedders tomorrow.

Regards,

Phil

[Philm]

Phil Is right, the absolute best performance upgrade is a wheel alignment.

Just find the right workshop. You need to find someone who knows about supension and not just an operator.

The last wheel alignment took 4 hours, but with alot of conversation mixed in that.

Phil gave me some rough numbers to work to, and they get the car close.

Rear bump steer seems excessive, not sure how to fix it, but have spendt many hours looking at it.

Thanks

Phil

[Leeroy]

Excuse my ignorance fellas but whats rear bump steer feel & react like. Not sure if I can say there is anything I dislike about my rear (car) that is

Really experience quite a lot of understeer at Winton, more so after 3/4 laps when tyres stated to loose grip, help here would be apreciated

Leeroy

[pneall]

Leeroy,

On the track the rear bump steer dosent impact much (unless you run off the track) but on the road where there are lots of bumps its a feeling that the rear is moving about more than you would like.

For those that have a 300kw billy cart just jump up and down on the rear and watch the wheels change toe angle.

Apparently there is a guy in NZ with a CR that has worked it all out but I have no details. Mando may have designed his out too when he carried out major surgery to his CR to get the dished wheel look .

Understeer can be cured with more power to the rear wheels

Spoke to Michael at Pedders, he is going to do an initial run of 6 bars plus one for a pattern should there be any further interest.


Phil