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proper drill bits required
Some nice carbide 3 and 4 mm bits and an easy out should do the trick Nick. Can't understand why your welder couldn't get fusion with the nut and stud. Is it just a small hobby plant?
To be continued, one day....
http://www.ftdmotorsports.com/?page_id=47
So they're a future product still in development.
Madmax takes a hell of an analytical approach to chassis modifications so i'm sure what hes developing will be sound. Would be good to get his input in here
I don't know what your front and rear motion ratios are on the A3, but i'm running 500lbs fronts 800lbs rears... with the TT's motion ratio (0.97 front 0.63 rear) this gives a wheel rate of roughly 500lbs front and back. The stiffest off the shelf options i could see were about 350lbs so this is quite a decent improvement over even the upgrades!
Apparently this is soft, I've seen someone else mention running 800/1300!
Are you going to have the dampers re-valved to suit when the time comes?
http://www.ftdmotorsports.com/?page_id=47
So they're a future product still in development.
Madmax takes a hell of an analytical approach to chassis modifications so i'm sure what hes developing will be sound. Would be good to get his input in here
the pro-lift is to achieve what exactly?
looks mighty low in the subframe and binding on droop?
interesting.Pro-lift is anti-dive (just in reverse)! So by adding pro-lift geometry, you make the car less prone to diving under throttle lift and breaking. Pro-lift also helps load the rear tyres when you apply throttle exiting a corner. Therfore a win/win situation for a track car with sorted rear spring rate that can counteract the extra squatting from the improved rear loading.
That pic is already with the suspension at full droop and there is no contact. You know me Bill, it wouldn't be implemented if there was safety/clearance issue. The shimming was done to add just enough pro-lift while still having clearance at full droop. No issue throughout the range of motion and even catching air.
i love it, been looking at them myself , where did you get it from ?yea, being alloy the collar weighs almost nothing, and brake cable as you know is reasonably stiff along it's length, so holds it there perfectly!
154g/s is good going for a stock car mate, many stage 1 maps are only in the 160's. Sounds like a good strong car
Just time for one last slightly controversial mod before bed time.
Can you see it?
I'm undecided on this one fully. Since the crash I've been 100% sure the car needs something doing about the rear end, which gets incredibly light at high speeds (100mph+) and doesn't inspire confidence always. It's more probably down to the 65/35 weight distribution, which without adding lead in the back, isn't likely to change dramatically.
It's just an experiement really, and may well be removed for road use and just added for trackdays, but initial impressions are that it doesn't look as bad as I expected it to, but I'm not sold 100% on if I like it or not.
Part of me wonders if it's too big and looks chav, or whether I get away with it because of the rest of the car, Dad wonders if it's too small, he expected a bigger one
How much difference it'll make remains to be seen, but we'll be trying it at our next track day for sure, and hopefully, it'll regain some of the high speed stability that the car always had as a full weight road car.
Who knows, we'll see how it goes!
Can these be made to order at all buddy , if so do you have a contact number for the company ?Yes mate, everyone has asked this
The closest anything will get to the screen is about 4mm at the top, where there will be minimal downward loading, and 10mm at the bottom where all the load will be taken
With this system the top mount is effectively a pivot point and will resist the drag forces from the wing. Any downward loading (hopefully downforce!) will be seen at the lower mounts at the bottom of the glass.
Not sure if I posed this already. But it won't hurt to repeat it:
Due to the angles involved, a small cut out is needed in the 'back leg' like this:
The depth of that notch is around 10mm.
With that rear stay effectively being the main load bearing member, I didn't fancy having it thinner than the others due to the cut out, so I asked Robin to beef it up internally from 30-40mm.
We did think about having the bulge in the outside of the rear leg, but it somehow didn't look right.
I also projected the roof line onto the bracket template I sent to Robin, and he's sweetened that top line so it flows with the roof line and curves up to the wing now instead of a sharp change like my template.
I compared the bracket to my MDF template last night, and given that it took Robin about 30 mins to draw from scratch, I'm amazed that it replicates the template perfectly, even though the template was just a rough free drawn shape. I wish I could use CAD that well!
I'll have a test fit this weekend, and make the final holes for the turn buckle and get everything bolted up. Mum and Dad are coming to stay on Tuesday evening, so I'll have it fitted for when Dad comes here so he can see it and we can go for a drive, then I'll whip it all off and hopefully have it all powdercoated next week ready for final fitment
Can these be made to order at all buddy , if so do you have a contact number for the company ?
Traded it in for a Dacia Sandero.
Hopefully part of the good news will be your attendance to ADI
Good to know emotional blackmail works on youI feel bad