Originally posted by Slide@Jun 17 2005, 05:04 PM
Not going to be too fussy with this car, i just want it to handle better. How much better? not to race car standard la, the car will still have the same 1.6 auto and i don't intend to mess about with the exterior or pass it of as a GTi.
I am just shocked at how much it understeers, and how with a little bit of a cross wind the car seems to just skip 2-3 inches to the right or left. Not to metion what happens when some thing bigger and faster blows by.
Will after market shocks, springs and roll bars cure all this? Will buying GTi stuff work ? but the looks of things it wont fit, right?
I get what you mean, you just want the car to be able to sweep corners at 100km/h without any fuss.
As for cross winds, one of the reason is the car is light.
You can't do anything about the chassis and the arms. So what leaves you is the following.
- Absorbers
- Springs
- Anti-roll bars
- Strut bars
- Lower tie bars
- Suspension bushings
- Rims and tire size
- Camber and toeing
- Tire pressure
Start by lowering the suspension and playing with the camber and toeing and tire pressure.
If you're up to it, get a fully adjustable coilover else get eibachs coupled with gas shocks. Konis are good but they are hard. Eibachs are more 'supple/forgiving' than some other harder once. A fully adjustable shock is the best as it will give you near total ajdustment of pre-load, damping, rebound, ride height. With these, you can tune them the way u want until you're satisfied. I still have a full set of fully adjustable konis somewhere in my pile of junk. If I can find them, I'll let you have them and you can fit them on directly, no mods needed.
Next you will need struts/ties, get ALL 4..front/rear,top/bottom. You can also add in a 4 point brace front top/bottom if you want instead of a strut/tie.
Finally, the important factor...the camber and toeing adjustments and tire pressure, how they are setup will/can effect the cornering ability of the car. The shocks wil only do so much of ABSORBER/REBOUND whereas the characteristics will be determined by these adjustments. I can point out a few reputable ppl who can do them for you. EON Motorsports can fine tune it for you as well. YS Khong is also another person who can do this for you.
Of course the rims and tires is also another factor like the height of the tire sidewall, the thinner the less flexing during corners, etc..
And than again, there's also foaming the chassis. There's also pros and cons in this if you decide to do it. It's very effective in 'tightening' up the car. This I'll leave it to Lee and The Necessary to elaborate it to you as they have discussed this in the other thread.
All those factors play a role in determining the best handling that can be achieved.
