Haakon
has an accommodating arse
This my best "long way from home" shot. Plates from Queensland, New Zealand, UK and Dubai parked at a hotel in NayPaiDaw in Myanmar!!
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Henry Catchpole put up a comparison on Youtube between an Evora and a 992 recently. The Evora held its own despite its age, and Henry's visible enthusiasm driving it was pretty telling.My old car - but updated:
Sounds a lot better now, but I don't miss how you'd have to drive the tits off it to get a thrill.
No camber plates are sold here. I am going to have to perform fairly major surgery on the strut towers for these. Lots of stuff in the UK but it all adds up in $, making stuff is easy. Nothing commercial is compression biassed anyway which is what we need.Is there nothing off the shelf for the XR4 to suit your needs???
Could you rustle up some links on compression bias so a pleb like me can learn stuff?I have an assortment of riches from which to make either adjustable strut tops or coilovers and adjustable strut tops for the XR4. I have next week to do it.
The two black struts are the XR4 units and the red springs are XR4 lowered springs. The Fortuner strut on the left is going to be sacrificed to make a jig so we can dyno the factory struts and these black Pedders ones. The potential coilover shocks (BMW 5 series rears) are fully rebuildable which means custom valving is an easy job, the red ones also have variable valving. These coilovers are threaded to allow different lengths and bases to be fitted. I can also turn a new base for these that will allow the struts to clamp into the XR4 knuckle so I am thinking of just going straight there and forgetting about the XR4 units. I can adapt the red camber plates (Commode) to suit. All we need are new springs.
These will all get dynoed this week and we can see what needs to be done. If the Pedders struts are still ok I will give them a run at the next sprint.
Decisions...
Also tracked down an engine management issue that originally was diagnosed as an intermittent fault on the crank angle sensor but actually turned out to be a bad coil pack which would occasionally fail to fire. All good now.
Will do.Could you rustle up some links on compression bias so a pleb like me can learn stuff?
Nope, all good! Glad the towbar was there as it was a pretty light tap really, would have been just annoying minor damage.The owner of the Mirage will be devastated - such a stunning little piece of engineering.
Check your headlights haven't popped out, @Haakon