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Mercedes 190e uses an upside downtown ball joint I think. While it's a mac strut car, the spring is on the wishbone instead of the strut.

Some calculations I did show a hybrid built from a 9.5:1 3l with a 2.5l crank drops the compression off to 8:5 compression...

:shock: 8) CAD file available perhaps? :D Would save me some work for sure.. :wink: That only works with the special flywheel/clutch combo i suppose? Because the gearbox prise-axle ( the one that goes into the clutchplate) doesn't stick out of the gearbox at the front it will move even further back...

Front mount gearbox? Camaro/Commodore unit should just bolt up?
Thermostat on the rwd GM iterations of that motor is in a most impractical place - anything been done to make that easier?

GTV27 wrote:Best ever livery ever

Fixed.

GTV27 wrote:Do 205/60 15 not scrub on the front guards given the OD is 12mm greater than OEM 195/60 15?

I know the 205/55/15 on my old GTV went damn close.

The italian guy, Luca right? I was actually on my way to visit him once when I was in Italy but in the end I couldn't get a hold of him when I was there. Too bad. I remember the Yngwie Malmsten MIDI music on his website, epic. :D Yeah, that's right! I remeber viewing his site on a 56k modem... As l...

This site is old, the cars are old and the people are getting old too. :lol: I first joined this site after meeting Mike in 1996 or so. The number of people calling it quits due to the economic situation is also going up. I even saw JK selling his big runners. What does that mean? His 12V V6 days a...

Given that guys are topping out at 200-210hp on 48s on the 2ls and TS motors, you're not suddenly going to see 230hp converting to ITBs... just ain't going to happen, and funnily enough, doesnt happen.

I guess it depends on how smooth your tracks are and how often you bounce off ripple strips.
Anyway, thinking about it more, i'd probably stick with the known quantity of about 10% more wheel rate on the front.

Yeah, that's what I always thought, but apparently flat ride theory says otherwise. Mind you, my workmate (ex V8SC) says 10% more wheel rate is the way to go.

Rumour Mill is saying Ron's Court case has setttled out of court, so he'll be back on the ring!

Additional tidbit - try to get the Body natural frequency at the rear to be about 20% greater than the front - this ties in with "Flat ride theory" where the faster response of the rearend allows the car to respond to bumps etc better.

Rothmans pics:




Also looked great on the 75 that Loubet rallied after the GTV6

Here's a handy spread sheet.
So the ball park targets are 65-70% of critical damping at approx 10 inches/s at the wheels... the rest is motion ratios and estimated masses. One gotcha to keep an eye out for, the motion ratios are inverted - so the front motion ratio is 1.59 or something.