How much understeer is too much understeer? I dont give a fuck, its time for new suspension.

After spending most of the day @ QR watching Dan have intense formula ford battle, then watching some drags, I was in the mood for some automotive buggery. I managed to drag luke and diddy into helping me install my Teins at Lukes workplace, a big engineering kinda place out Banyo way.

It turned out to be the perfect spot, because so much shit went wrong we needed to make use of some crazy fucked up tools youve never heard of. So anyway, welcome to s1 garage (fanfare)


^^ omg GSX-R

We started with the front left, and that went in fine. A little too fine as it turned out.


^^ Luke, briefly known here as Astron_Boy, working his unique Slovak magic. Mad props and a case of 40's to Luke for giving up his time to help me out.

Then we tried the front right. Oh hang on a minute, this suspension is seems to be under a lot more load than the other side. Oh wait, its because something, probably somewhere very fundamentally important, is bent on the front of your car!

That was the first problem, which we solved by using Diddy as a kind of human breaker bar to bend various parts of the suspension assembly into place while the coilover was fitted in. Tough job, but some cunts gotta do it.

Then came the second problem. With all the load wound up on the stock suspension, the lower bolts needed to be hammered out with, suprisingly, a hammer (and a stake thingy). In the process we flattened out the thread on one of the bolts, rendering it less screwable than Margaret Thatcher. However being in a warehouse full of 3ft long shifter wrenches and crazy laser cutting tools, Luke located this nifty nail-file gizmo that you grind across the bolt to straighten the thread out again. This tool may not sound crazy to you, but I was fucking amazed ok.


^^ Front right is in

The rears were fucking easy.


^^ s13 pro-stock, coming soon

Then a crazy fucking zombie came out of fucking nowhere and started doing shit, like what the fuck is with that?


^^ s1: wear tyres, not shirts


^^ I would hazard a guess that the ride height is currently just a little over the lowest legal limit. I did manage to resist Diddys demands that I "slam the cunt" and Im pretty sure that noise I heard reversing up the driveway wasnt my sump (lol) grinding on the road, so I guess it will stay like this for now.

Wheel alignment to come soon, as we as a diagnosis about why my front end is bi-polar.

In short,

looking hot

just need that shit rolling on 22"s

last edited by Paveway-3 at 07:39:49 20/Nov/05

Nice one.

What the fuck is bent?

ah, just get some adjustable castor rods/bushes and you can probably get it back to straight

you could also put the car on a chassis rig and get it straightened

if it pulls to any direction it means the alignment is out. You've probably munted a tower on one of your many gutter surfing expiditions. Easiest way to fix these is to get ajustable castor rod bushes (50-100) and ajustable camber bolts for the control arms (100) or alternativly get some camber tops and get a suspension shop to wind in -2 on both sides.

The rears are always a cunt to do, have to get them through the upper arms and on that little bolt down the bottom. Crowbar city!

Fuck i love having a rattle gun!

In other news dont waste money on drift pinapples, the verdict is in. makes fuck all difference.

my r32 pull to the right a bit now...after i my left rear mounted a curb during one of the s1 random cruises (i turn in too early going around an island at maxes work ok). before that, i had a full alignment done at fulcrum and was driving straight.

good work maxe, makes me want to get coilovers too....and bodykit, rims, fmic, bigger turbo, bigger injectors, better exhaust...etc etc :(

it'll make a huge difference on the dirt, but not dry. Mabye alloy ones would have been better.....

well, i dunno, maybe its just me
but i woudlnt fuck around putting in suspension

its like, important n that

id pay fulcrum to do it

theres some nice open roads down there maxe ;)

i live about 1 min away from it :P

Looks hot, how does it handle?

im the sorta guy that would pay to get stuff done, too much stuff can go wrong with me trying to fiddle with it myself :p

so, atm im paying to get the car cleaned up from what the guy before me couldnt.

radiator, thermostat, heater hoses. hopefully not a head gasket, but we'll see hey :/

because i dont trust myself, and this guy isnt taht expensive and i like warranties on work done :D

plus the stuff is below the turbos == hard to get to

omg pics burt

pics

yeah well, i got new shocks and springs put in a while ago, wanted to do it myself but was a bit of a girly man about it. so i took it to beaurepairs and the dodgey cunts didn't put my front shocks in.. kept them. only found about about it a few months down the track when i was changing my brake pads.

btw that beaurepair virginia. across from the shell on sandgate road.

well, i dunno, maybe its just me
but i woudlnt fuck around putting in suspension

its like, important n that

dude, it's like 4 or 5 bolts to hold the strut in, take them out, throw old strut at stray cat/dog/bogan, put new strut in, replace bolts. Only hard thing about it is if whatever you do stuffs up the wheel alignment, just go to your favourite wheel place & get a new wheel alignment. My friend changed the struts in a couple of his cars, nothing ever fell out, nothing ever fell out on any of our cars either. If you can't judge how tight to make it, just buy a torque wrench & look up how tight to tighten up the bolts.

no, it might upset him