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Originally Posted by ricola
Nice...
One thing I've never seen any mention of: are there general guidelines as to what sort of caster to run when moving the struts to the rear?
How fast do you think it is? Looks pretty nippy on the video.. Gone round any bends a bit faster too to see how the front end is?
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Yeah, uh, I really don't know. I just kind of set it up arbitrarily, I do have tons of camber adjustment, both at the top of the strut and where the strut meets the bearing carrier, and there is about 1.5" castor adjustment in the strut mount bracket, but I really don't know where it's going to end up. I'm going to take it to some race shop and have them go through it, it might even end up needing a total rear suspension redo. It's definately not ideal right now, but it works, and for around town I suspect it will be just fine, it will be when it's pushed to the limits at speed where the weaknesses will show up. I imagine it handles better then a Chevy Citation right now!
As far as quickness, it's quick! I really havn't even revved it up yet. The tuning is not done on it, so I'm kind of nervous that I'm damaging it if I run it too hard. I don't have seat belts hooked up in it right now, so it's kinda scary how quick it is. Spinning the tires doesn't take any work at all, but that may be a product of poor geometry too. The engine should have around 200hp as it sits right now, and I can't imagine it weighs more than 2000 lbs at this point, so I would imagine around a 5 second 0-60 time shouldn't be a problem. Straight line performance should be pretty crazy, but it's really handling that I'm concerned with in the big picture.
It has not seen a corner at speed, I don't want to fly out the open door!!! I'll get the door on and the seatbelts in before I do any cornering, but I'm not optimistic at this point, aligment and general geometry needs some attention before I get serious about it's cornering ability. It's only run up and down my street here, and the next big trip will be on the back of a trailer to 034 Motorsport to have the engine tuned. Then I can run it without fear of doing any motor damage.
Jason