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General => General Technical => Wheels & Tyres, Suspension & Brakes => Topic started by: ro284 on December 15, 2006, 08:11:45 PM

Title: Fd owner with a tape measure please
Post by: ro284 on December 15, 2006, 08:11:45 PM
Help, i have fitted Cusco Coilovers, but lost the standard ride height measurement from ground to top of wheel arch, my notes blew away, could some knid person brave the wind and snow for me please? pref standard, and front and rear if poss.
cheers Bob
Title: Fd owner with a tape measure please
Post by: oldone on December 15, 2006, 10:34:41 PM
Set them all the way down,...then do your corner weights.Then check your technical notes on the circuit you will be racing at or the circuit you will be testing at.Adjust the whole suspension to the tech notes from your last race meeting.Redo corner weights.Do 5 laps setting in.Check all measurements.Do 8 laps race pace.Adjust settings to drivers instructions !!!!!:cheers :evillaugh
Title: Fd owner with a tape measure please
Post by: ro284 on December 15, 2006, 11:58:13 PM
Many thanks Era, But my tech notes blew away, so if i set them all the way down can i leave them there as my circuit is the M27 with no speed humps!
If no one can measure from the ground up, is there anyone who could measure from the arch down? Please. i can bring a torch.
cheers Bob
Title: Fd owner with a tape measure please
Post by: clive on December 16, 2006, 10:04:26 AM
Quote from: ro284Many thanks Era, But my tech notes blew away, so if i set them all the way down can i leave them there as my circuit is the M27 with no speed humps!
If no one can measure from the ground up, is there anyone who could measure from the arch down? Please. i can bring a torch.
cheers Bob



Hi Bob,

Start with 26" at the front and 26.5" at the back, this is from the highest point on the outer wheel arch to the ground.

This will be a starting point but a word of advise, don\'t set the car up higher at the front than the back as it will cause the car to possibly be aerodynamically unstable
Title: Fd owner with a tape measure please
Post by: ro284 on December 16, 2006, 11:18:55 AM
Brilliant, many thanks Clive,
Bob
Title: Fd owner with a tape measure please
Post by: robedwards99 on December 16, 2006, 03:05:33 PM
Sorry Bob.. you did ask me this a while back via PM...

My car is 25 1/4" at the front and 26 1/4" at the rear.... you should of sent me a reminder mate!! My brains like a sieve!!