stricky Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 hello chaps, The V8 project lives and i'm trying to finalise the spec before starting work.Any recomendations for fast road suspension setup?Anyone got AVO dampers? how easy is it to go for a coil over setup on the rear?would this be OTT for fast road? :-/thanks in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beans Posted July 9, 2007 Share Posted July 9, 2007 stricky wrote: ... Anyone got AVO dampers? ...Yes .... :PFront's are OK, rear's just might be to long, not sure.A friend also has AVO's at the rear and they are approx. 1 inch to long. As 't Kreng stands rather higher than the avarage TR7/8 I haven't encountered problems with them.Good thing is they are adjustable on the car, very handy if you're doing La Carrera with a fully loaded car and find out the dempers need a firmer setting :) Also both strokes are adjusted.As for the suspension set up, what do you expect from the car and under what conditions ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chriss Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 I have got AVO on car adjustables on the rear of my TR7 and Koni off car adjustables on the front. AVOs do not appear to fit the front. I got them fitted by Revington TR, but they will sell parts separately. Use Superpro poly bushes (from the same source) and you will have a car that handles realy well, road or track. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beans Posted July 10, 2007 Share Posted July 10, 2007 Chriss wrote:... AVOs do not appear to fit the front ...One way or another they don't list them on their site but they do supply them(number TAI 60-01) and they are adjustable on the car.Advantage over the Koni's is that the in and out going stroke is adjusted as compared to the outgoing stroke only on the Koni Classic's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stricky Posted July 11, 2007 Author Share Posted July 11, 2007 thanks for the replies chaps,Chriss - did you get AVO coil overs fitted to the rear? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chriss Posted July 11, 2007 Share Posted July 11, 2007 No, just the adjustable (red) dampers with a thumb screw at the bottom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beans Posted July 11, 2007 Share Posted July 11, 2007 beans wrote: ...rear's just might be to long, not sure ... I did measure them a few minutes ago and they are indeed the long.With springs removed there remains a 20mm gap between bumpstop and axle ...not good if you have a lowered car.So it looks like AVO have some homework to do :-/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chriss Posted July 12, 2007 Share Posted July 12, 2007 Good spring rates for the road are 130 lb/in front, 200lb/in back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stricky Posted July 13, 2007 Author Share Posted July 13, 2007 would this 20mm gap be a problem on road car?I presume the coil spring would never compress down enough to cause any issues? even with lowered springs?do you not think 130lb in the front are a bit soft? normally the recommendations are 200lb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beans Posted July 13, 2007 Share Posted July 13, 2007 Quote:I presume the coil spring would never compress down enough to cause any issues?Well they do if you drive the car hard enough :-/It all depends on your suspension settings (spring rates and damper settings) combined with how much you've lowered the car and what you are carrying around ...Quote:do you not think 130lb in the front are a bit soft? normally the recommendations are 200lbBear in mind that the original springs are 88- 94 lb front and 165 lb rear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stricky Posted July 16, 2007 Author Share Posted July 16, 2007 do you chaps think 200lb fronts are too stiff then? strange when most suppliers recommend them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stricky Posted July 16, 2007 Author Share Posted July 16, 2007 should have added .........was thinking of lowered by 1 inch and using AVO dampers all round, car will be used on road but very occasionally on track days ( permission pending!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beans Posted July 16, 2007 Share Posted July 16, 2007 Well both my roadgoing cars have fairly uprated springs;DHC stands on 200 lbs front and rear springs with soft/medium damper settings. Not driven it nough to give a proper verdict on it's setiings but should be OK.FHC stands on 225 lbs front and 190 lbs with medium damper settings. As a result of the bias to stiffer front springs (compared with the rear) the car remains on the understeering side off neutral very long before she oversteers :BThey are both a lot stiffer than standard and thus less comfortable, but still rather acceptable i.m.h.o. It's just what you prefer. Oh and they both have a strut brace to stiffen the front up a bit ::) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chriss Posted July 17, 2007 Share Posted July 17, 2007 I am running my shock absorbers 2 clicks on the stiff side of medium. My car is absolutely neutral steering on the dry, but it depends how you drive it in the wet. At cornors like Copse, at Silverstone, it will understeer in 4th and at the tighter cornors it will oversteer in 3ed.Having 50%(ish) uprates on the springs does not appear to compromise the handling on circuits - look at the Silverstone Track Day pictures, where my 2L car was faster than the V8 TRs & MGs and standard MGFs - and makes the car reasonably comfortable but still very quick in mountains - 10CR and Carrera Caledonia.But springs and shocks are not the only factors. SuperPro bushes and Yokohama A539s also play their part. I also run 1.5 degrees of -ve camber on the front. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stricky Posted July 17, 2007 Author Share Posted July 17, 2007 thanks Chriss , did you get your springs from revington too?what size wheels do you run? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beans Posted July 17, 2007 Share Posted July 17, 2007 Chriss wrote:... I also run 1.5 degrees of -ve camber on the front.Try 2° ... ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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