New car
Mon, 21/07/2008 - 20:58 — The D Man
Hey i just got a 1980 T18 to use for motorkhana and to use for khanacroses when i turn 14 and thought i would share it with you:
Specs:
2TG Engine With Twin Solex Carbbys
Wade Cams
Decked Giving 10.4 To 1 Compresion
Head Ported And Polished
Matched Manifold
Extractors With 2.5 Inch Exhaust
Heavy Duty Clutch
5 Speed Gearbox
Heavy Front And Rear SwayBars
Lightend FlyWheel
:Giving it 120 HP at the wheels
120hp at the wheels? Sweet jebus! That's about the same as both our Excels put together!
How is it going to handle on dirt with big sway bars?
Continuing on with the thread of the big sway bars Alfie ( White lantra) does not have any, mind you it does have Proflex coilovers, so it makes it a bit of a arse bandit ( bum wants to come round and punch into things) so it behaves like a rear wheel drive at speed. The idea behind it is that sway bars slow down the suspensions reaction time and rather than the tyre rolling over the bumps it skips losing traction which is not good....... i think.............;o)
Yeah im just using the swaybars for tarmac motorkhanas.
I fitted a rear anti-roll bar to my old mk1 Swift GTi road car. Made it enormously tail-happy on gravel. Enooooormously!
The Excel rally guys are split over whether to run them or not - seems to be a bit of personal preference.
The thing with them is that it does limit the body roll in corners, however it also has the effect of making the outside wheel take a lot more of the load than the inside wheel. Which isn't good if you're not running an LSD on the front.
Looks great 3 wheeling around corners on tarmac though. :)
When we get a chance to do a test/tune day in our Hyundai, disconnecting the bars is the first thing we're going to try out.
If your tail is coming out too much the first thing to try is playing with your tyre pressures alittle bit at a time, have you had your rear wheel alignment done latley???
I did a front end alignment job on the old red X2, actually it was just a bunch of negative camber. About 4 or 5 degrees looking at it. Resetting the steering tie rods so the wheels were at least pointing in a forward direction was fun.
The net result was that it cornered like a scalded cat on carpet, but keeping it in a straight line (even through the pits) was quite a task. Loading it was fun too as it would try to push the ramps out each side.....
The things we do.