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Every MX5 I see recently is driven by some melty neck beard with massive spacer holes in their ears and a cloud of vape pouring out to cover up the exhaust smoke from the 6" pipe out back.
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CSF done and dusted.
Started with a 6 Hour journey to get to Anglesey which was awful. Heavy traffic with paddle clutch, bosch 044 fuel pump whine, side exit exhaust drone and ds1.11 pads squealing under light braking does not make a relaxed drive. Only fun part of the journey was the...
...however they weld to the original subframe area which I have cut out so wouldn’t be able to weld it in for shafts to clear from gearbox end etc.
5) potentially have to weld in top plates from PMS if I require to change castor of upright.
I want to do everything possible to not use huge spacers.
...tbh 😂 I think they're something daft like ET25, they were custom made by Braid to whoever spec'd them. I reckon they'd be perfect without any spacers, except they just catch my brakes ever so slightly
At one point I thought my OS driveshaft started to click it's c**t off but it was just...
...your car, even if you think they may be factory fitted. This could have gone very differently. Changing your alloys, adding a spoiler, wheel spacers, stainless exhaust, larger tail pipes, high intensity lighting, colour change, decals, different seats, speaker in the boot, ecu mapping...
I have decided to stick with the Clio, despite it not doing many miles (sub 150 so far this year!)
At this point nothing else at this price point interests me and really think id miss it if I let it go.
So took it out today for a good hard blast to see if it would break, & it didn't & had a...
dare to be different 😊
With the state of our roads, I doubt you’ll notice much difference, unless you have a particular set of driving skills. If not, you’ll likely end up in a ditch - cup suspension or non cup 😂
I’m sure in testing, Renault engineers found some improvement over the non cup...
...of posts, i am starting to feel like a made a big mistake in not buying one with the cup suspension.
I wanted to put coilovers on my 182 and spacers for fast road/odd trackday and i am wondering what is the difference in handling between a cup suspension 182 with coilovers vs a non cup...
...pedal the arm of the valve moves freely. But it also seems to make a tapping noise as it's working?
Also fitted a pair of PMS 10mm stub axle spacers. Not fitted stub axle spacers before, simple job really. Done a 1000 times to clios but here's a pic anyway.
Got tired of jacking the car up...
...K-Tec Stealth exhaust.
- Sparco Evo 2 seats.
- Jonfoz XL frames.
- Powerflex camber bolts.
- Pure motorsport Rear stub axle 10mm spacers.
- Rear calipers.
A trip to AKS Tuning Bedford for wheel alignment fast road setup.
After fitting everything lately, it will be interesting to...
different camber adjustment between left and right photo. I guess the advantage is that the wheel runs a bit further away from the BC strut, but if you run spacers that doesn't matter actually as there's no chance of rubbing
My rear is stock MK1 as never felt the need to change it, just with 10mm hubcentric spacers per side and a custom fitment white line rear arb which frankly don't think really does much
Anyone done this before? I'm looking for advice to make I've got everything I need and have thought of everything. Parts I'm planning to use:
JC5 Gearbox
Cup 182 Driveshafts (which ones fit?)
Bridgecraft roll centre and bump steer hubs (are these ok with the valver subframe and steering rack?)...
Yes from memory, this is exactly the setup/order. I didn’t realise there were two types of top mount until researching this past week.
Every 172 I’ve owned has already had the updated design without the spacer but. Cheers
Yeah. The top part is effectively a large spacer, so your brace will do the same job. I think that's the only way you can fit it.
I don't know what's happened to that company, but it's properly gone down hill over the last few years. Maybe lost some good staff during covid. They have some...
Thats why I put off the correction kit in some respects, i'd looked at them but didn't fancy open bearings and winter.
I was on Grams and cup shocks as well before the coilovers never had an issue but then I only had a spare wheel in the boot 😄
I was on grams springs and cup shocks, lovely combo but quite low. Spacers front and rear as well and on track he front rubs and with the boot loaded up with wheels and tools the rear rubs 😂
My main goal is to see how the handling changes with quite supple springs and the front suspension not...
I was until recently dailying mine as it is. Wasn't too bad on the road tbh and never rubbed on the arches on the 16s, rubs on the 15s on track but only under really heavy load at certain tracks. Mines quite a bit lower than stock and im running spacers front and rear.
...approx -2.5deg (Think its -2.4 one side and -2.5 the other), so set it to max. I've had it like this before and love how it drives.
Good to see it with some negative camer again! Needs some spacers but thats just me being a tart.
And if you'd like to pretend the 172 is in a 90s skating...
Hi guys I’ve fitted pms stub axle spacers wasn’t happy with one so put 2 on each side looks the stuff but when mates in the back and you corner hard or find a pot hole the wheel rubs quite bad on the arch wondering will camber shims solve the problem or should I just run with one each side ...