My major project!

[Bobfish]

You cant say "camber helps RWD cars" thats like saying "putting air in your tyres will make it handle better"

Depending on what you use the car for will depend on the best solution.

If your going to drift it, i\'d say cut the inner lip away and run a bit more camber. However, if you plan on driving it even remotely fast on a circuit or on the road your gonna wanna stick between 1 and 1.5 degrees camber really (depending on spring rates,ride height and anti roll bars) so youll have to roll the arch out.

Personally i would speak to a body shop about getting them to do half the job.  Maybe you could bond the arch skin on, they could modify the existing wheel arch to meet the inner of the new wheel arch, then you could smooth it all in.

You could even cut the rear arches, extend them with metal and then bond the other arch over the top, see what julians done here to see what i mean:

http://www.driftworks.com/forum/drift-car-projects-builds/29908-driftworks-s15-2jzgte.html#post422874

If you want, i can put you in touch with Julian so he can give you a price on just welding on some metal inner arches to meet your outers?

[ENVYD]

i said "rwd with no traction control" and "a lil bit of camber" i think it give\'s that lil bit more help around fast bends! you have even just said yourself stay between 1-1.5degrees camber witch in my books is still -camber! anyways there just my thoughts but end then end of the day its really up to lad whos car it is and what he thinks feels good!

[S3TH]

How does one achieve camber? Is it an art portrayed by the suspension or are further mechanisms required to capture this phenomenon?

[leeroy_25]

Envyd, And Bobfish. thank you both for your replys.. I will go with some camber then for sure.. and maybe experiment a bit to see what feels right.. it will just be a weekend fun car and maybe a track day or two and possibly playing about learning the art of drifting! But we will see.. That link you gave me is awesome! I had already found it and I actually sat and read it the other day.. and it\'s not often I sit and read! It made me wish I had kept my spare shell! But I definately will be on the look for project number two which might be a rx7 along the lines of that rather meaty S15! Everyone have a read it very good! That is when I started thinking about the best way to attack my arches! On the S15 I think they have cut the old outer arch off and then fabricated a rough metal extension and then blend the fibreglass over the top.. from memory that is? The reason was the same as mine but a bit more extreme.. to protect the arch when he\'s shredding tyres while drifting! I say it almost makes me want to get and S15!

Cheers
Lee

[leeroy_25]

Todays installment!!

Not a great effort again! I have been working on three cars at the same time the past couple of weeks! I have got a little fiesta I am using as a daily driver now, due to the ridiculous price of petrol! Anyway I got that finished of this morning and spent some time this afternoon playing wth the FD!
Last week I started straightening out the dent in the rear corner which was
not as easy as you might think!

For a start you need to strip out the rear seats interior quarter panel and most of the rest of the boot panel to remove the small piece of trim in the boot that the dent is behind! I think that was on my last post?! What a joke! then there is a couple of electrical items behind that to take out as well.
Once all that is out there is bum all space to swing a hammer! hardly any room to get and block in.. But after much beating of my knuckles an various panle beating tools and bars I got it all out! Almost perfect!



Just small skim of filler to even it out! I will flat that back out next week.

The reason I have hesitated on putting the arch blisters on is I want to check tyre clearance when I get some rims on there.. All being well I am hoping to have something to use and show next week! But thats under wraps for now!
On that note has anyone got a Arch rolling tool I could borrow please?! Would help my cause massively and men I could do a very neat tidy job on the arches in a lot less time!

Also I did promise to show some bling last week.. So here is something to wet your appetites!


Keeping checking back for progress over the next couple of weeks!

Lee

[leeroy_25]

Okay guys\'

I cannot contain my excitement hence my late post!!

But I have been holding back on a little surprise just incase it all went tits! it might still all go tits as they may not fit.. But if that is the case I will \'make them fit\'!
But here we go..
The piece de la resistance!!

Veilside Andrew F\'s...




I will have to post some better pictures in the day light at the weekend and try fitting them..
Now I do appreciate this may be a love them or hate them senario. To be fair I was not at all sure about them until I unwrapped them and put them up to the car! They need a bit of TLC and my least favourite part is the centre caps so I plan to design my own and get them machined!
I am led to believe that there are not many of these this side of pond. Anyone else on the forum got these out of interest?

Let me know your thoughts people.

Lee

[interloper393]

yeah iv gota set of those wheels, so`s ma neighbour, ma gran, the milkman .. nice wheels and nice panel beating lol, i had the same but on the other side of ma last rex, was a pig to do but is doable..

[rxsevenfd3s]

the big one is for the break servo and the 2 little ones are for the boost gauge & actuator, The pipes under the plenum are pipeless on mine so not sure

[rxsevenfd3s]

sorry about that i didn\'t see the other 3 pages until i posted

[leeroy_25]

Interloper..
It is me that was toying with your other chrome wheels!! Hence how I recognised the centre caps you were going to flog with them!! Have you actually got a set of these F\'s?? The ones you sent a pic of on your car are different ones?? V\'s or whichever letter of the alphabet Andrew got up to?!
or have you got these as a spare set too?! Are you Mr wheel man?!

Cheers
Lee

[interloper393]

nah just playing bud, iv got a set of veilsides yeah but unsure which ones.. im liking yours tho

[leeroy_25]

you evil man!!!

I figured your gran probably didn\'t have a set!!!

Ohh what are they worth!!? Not that I would ever sell them... At the minute!

Lee

[S3TH]

Interloper is drunk most of the time... take no notice... :Giggle

[interloper393]

Interloper is drunk most of the time... take no notice... :Giggle

 o thats cold man.. very cold!! lol.. not sure what theres worth to be honest bud, i know before christmas i seen a set like mine without tyres go for £750, these were 18" tho, mines 18" rear 17" fronts like a hotrod :yes

[leeroy_25]

I have seen a set of these rims on ebay USA and they were up for over £1000.. without tyres! Don\'t know if they sold or not? That\'s a lot of dough for secondhand rims without rubber!
I am not at liberty to say what I paid for these but in my opinion I got a steel! providing I don\'t find any nasty surprises with them!!

Fingers crossed for my trial fit tomorrow! Hopefully will have some pics up with the car having it\'s rear blisters in place?!

Lee