Geo and corner weighted
Hey taking my mac1 9r for a geometry setup and suspension wondering what setting us as are using that works well.
Cheers lee
What adjustment /adjusters have you got on the 9r wishbones?
Got ball joints on the top arms for camber and I cut the bushes off rear lower arms and put rose joints so I could adjust the toe.
That's good then,as the rear toe on mine with the fixed Mac1 bones was quite a way out.
I just did some Googling for settings,in the end IIRC I went for:
Rear,
1 degree negative camber
1 degree toe in
Front
1.5 degrees negative camber
1 degree toe in
How you find it set up like that on road kev? Does it feel solid on road not tracking all over the shop? What shocks you using how did you set the height and damping up?
Yeah feels good,
Considering I'm on Gaz coil overs with springs for a Zetec powered car!
Height wise I've set it to 115mm front chassis to ground,rear is 135mm.
I had it corner weighted too when they set geo
Where are you taking it out of curiosity?
Perfect kev I'll set mine to that see how it goes my springs should be ok as it had the blade engine it. Going get it set up with a boy called
andrew lamont motorsport he set up cars for fast road and track going to corner weight it as well.
[Edited on 16/3/17 by Weelee]
If you don't mind could you let me know how you get on. I struggled to find anywhere up here to do my last car and will hopefully have another to get setup in a few months.
That's no bother at all few boys I go about with in kitcars they have Gbs zeros and they say the set up you get is great so hears hoping as not cheap lol.
How much have you been quoted if you don't mind me asking? Pm me if you prefer.
2 to 3 hours at 45 per hour plus vat.
That's decent value. I was quoted north of 300 by some places.
Don't mind paying but had so much bad experience with tracking setup seem worse when it comes back out from getting done lol.
Have they got a shock Dyno? Or have the dampers been accurately valved for the car.
On a lightweight car I think it's the most critical thing
Not sure don't think so, the car come with gaz shock and it had a fireblade in it I've put a r1 2007 so should be about same weight or there about am guessing that when the guy built the car he told mac1 what engine was going in so got the right shocks.
Do mac 1 buy them in matched pairs?
Sometimes it's worth speaking with someone like procomp for advice or just let them sort it properly.
I'm sure you'll get it somewhere near though,and hopefully see an improvement
Procomp would have been my first place of call but I stay just outside Edinburgh so but far for a set up lol
It does make a big difference. The ones direct from protech were miles out. I made the trip from Glasgow to procomp with the last car. Great guys.
This time I bought my shocks from procomp ready valved and matched so I can just get the geo set locally
[Edited on 16/3/17 by sdh2903]
Do you mean the ones direct from pro tech were miles out?
Mine cost me just under £100
Geo and corner weighted
Bargain that kev not bothered on cost long it drives mint lol.
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Originally posted by daniel mason
Do you mean the ones direct from pro tech were miles out?
Did you have it done yet?