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- Thread starter Jonff
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Fiesta ST3
Those coilovers look proper!
Cheers Gaz
Yeah they're not bad bit of kit, reasonably priced considering too
Fiesta ST3
BC are one of the main subaru coilover go to companies, im tempted. How do you find them?
Just a quick snap of the new height
and one of the rear camber lol
and one of the rear camber lol
Quite noisy due the solid topmounts but they feel decent to drive on, car felt more planted and thats with the alignment miles out.
Fiesta ST3
Not too crashy on the road? My only experience with coilovers is with k-tec's "own" brand on my cup. Thought my spine was going to rattle off. Puts me off kinda
IMO, they ride pretty smoothly considering what they are, I'm on 15 clicks on the front and 20 clicks on the back. Although the shocks I've just replaced were knackered and the ride was atrocious so anything would probably feel smooth in comparison lol.
welshname
ClioSport Club Member
Referring to cagey's raceland post
Ride height looks spot on. You'll have to take me out in it soon
Ride height looks spot on. You'll have to take me out in it soon
Fiesta ST3
Thought so, what a load of crap they were! Ahh to be young and nieve buying fail-tec stuff
lol!
As per Rhys. Those ktec coilovers. So bad.
I wasn't sure if you meant the BCs lol but yeah, heard a lot of bad things about them.
Had the car aligned today and the car feels far better than it did on the standard shocks.
quick photo of while I was waiting for it to go on the ramps
and a photo of the final alignment settings.
Running more a less 2degrees of Neg camber on the front and parallel toe, I've got a bit too much camber on the rear but I'll need to fit adjustable camber arms to pull that back because only the toe is adjustable on the rear beam/subframe as standard.
quick photo of while I was waiting for it to go on the ramps
and a photo of the final alignment settings.
Running more a less 2degrees of Neg camber on the front and parallel toe, I've got a bit too much camber on the rear but I'll need to fit adjustable camber arms to pull that back because only the toe is adjustable on the rear beam/subframe as standard.
I've decided to polybush the front end due to finding excessive movement in the front wishbone bushes and I mean there was a lot of movement. Explains the creaking over bumps lol
4 Bushes in total to remove and replace. just a few of photos during he process.
I decided to replace the ball joints too, Ford decide to rivet these in place, you can see in one of my photos above where I've drilled the rivets out, I simply replaced the rivets with bolts when reattaching the new balljoints. Much better idea doing this as Ford want £300+ per wishbone for new ones, so even with the cost of the Polybushes it was a fraction of the cost.
Plan is to Polybush the rear (much bigger job) and fit a Whiteline Rear adjustable ARB next.
4 Bushes in total to remove and replace. just a few of photos during he process.
I decided to replace the ball joints too, Ford decide to rivet these in place, you can see in one of my photos above where I've drilled the rivets out, I simply replaced the rivets with bolts when reattaching the new balljoints. Much better idea doing this as Ford want £300+ per wishbone for new ones, so even with the cost of the Polybushes it was a fraction of the cost.
Plan is to Polybush the rear (much bigger job) and fit a Whiteline Rear adjustable ARB next.
Ordered a Whiteline rear adjustable ARB and surprisingly it came the next day.
The bolts holding the brackets which hold the ARB to the subframe were nicely rounded, so removing them was a pig, after much swearing and a badly gashed finger, I got them removed and fitted the new ARB.
Decided to replace the tie rods up front as well seeing as I've replaced everything else suspension/steering wise.
1st problem was removing them from the rack, unlike the Clios, the knuckles haven't got any flats on them (Ford's way of trying to get people to buy a complete rack), so I had to remove the lower control arm and I managed to crack them off with mole grips.
Fitting the new ones was far easier as the knuckles had flats on them, so I got to use my rig up tool I used on the Clios lol
Car obviously needs realigning, so I won't be able to tell the difference the new parts have made yet as the tracking is miles out.
The bolts holding the brackets which hold the ARB to the subframe were nicely rounded, so removing them was a pig, after much swearing and a badly gashed finger, I got them removed and fitted the new ARB.
Decided to replace the tie rods up front as well seeing as I've replaced everything else suspension/steering wise.
1st problem was removing them from the rack, unlike the Clios, the knuckles haven't got any flats on them (Ford's way of trying to get people to buy a complete rack), so I had to remove the lower control arm and I managed to crack them off with mole grips.
Fitting the new ones was far easier as the knuckles had flats on them, so I got to use my rig up tool I used on the Clios lol
Car obviously needs realigning, so I won't be able to tell the difference the new parts have made yet as the tracking is miles out.
Had the car realigned again, gone for a bit more toe out on the front.
The handling is infinitely better, turn in has dramatically improved and the car is far more planted. It also rides bumps better, it glides over them rather than smashing in to them.
Got another trackday booked at Oulton on the 7th November.
The handling is infinitely better, turn in has dramatically improved and the car is far more planted. It also rides bumps better, it glides over them rather than smashing in to them.
Got another trackday booked at Oulton on the 7th November.
During my last trackday the car was suffering from a lot of heat after around 4 laps which meant having to end the session and come back in. Decided to try cure the problem via Headlight Cold Air Feeds.
I picked up a pair of poverty spec headlights from a breakers for £20 and stripped all the innards of the headlight out, idea I had was to drill a hole through the plastic lense and the back of the headlight then run ducting through allowing cold air to get in engine bay and the turbo cooler.
I then fitted the intake ducts and attached the hose to it and ran it straight through the headlights.
Now I know they look horrible on the car lol but after a test run, the CHTs are down by 8 degrees and it takes a lot longer before the temps are getting very hot and as they'll only be used on track I'm not too fused on the aesthetics.
Once I was happy they worked as intended I decided to paint them black, again not the most aesthetically pleasing but it's just a case of function over form.
I picked up a pair of poverty spec headlights from a breakers for £20 and stripped all the innards of the headlight out, idea I had was to drill a hole through the plastic lense and the back of the headlight then run ducting through allowing cold air to get in engine bay and the turbo cooler.
I then fitted the intake ducts and attached the hose to it and ran it straight through the headlights.
Now I know they look horrible on the car lol but after a test run, the CHTs are down by 8 degrees and it takes a lot longer before the temps are getting very hot and as they'll only be used on track I'm not too fused on the aesthetics.
Once I was happy they worked as intended I decided to paint them black, again not the most aesthetically pleasing but it's just a case of function over form.
Nice idea on the headlights
Look a lot better sprayed black, looked a bit cross eyes before haha
Look a lot better sprayed black, looked a bit cross eyes before haha
Mork of Ork
ClioSport Club Member
VW Taigo
Wouldn't it work better by removing the 'glass' completely so the holes were pointing straight ahead rather than upwards? That way the cold air would be forced down the ducting by the movement of the car giving a better airflow.
Might not work like that but that's what I envisioned when I started reading the post.
Might not work like that but that's what I envisioned when I started reading the post.
Knuckles
ClioSport Admin
Proof that everything is better with googley eyes
My thought. The intake would be the headlight.
Maybe, although they work quite significantly as they are now, so I'm happy with them.
As I'd mentioned earlier in the thread I'd managed to warp my brake discs going round Oulton in May so I decided to rectify the issue, decided to refurb the 4 pot Brembo calipers while I was at it too.
Decided to just go back to single piece brake discs as I'd rather warp those than the twice as expensive 2 piece discs.
Caliper removed
My method for popping the pistons out of the calipers lol, works just as well as using a compressed air gun IMO.
All pistons, dust seals and bore seals removed.
Was a good job I'd decided to refurb the calipers as I had a couple of seized pistons, also most of the dust seals were either distorted or split.
I then sanded the calipers down to remove all the baked on brake dust and dirt that had collected over the years. Then I applied some etch primer.
(s**t pic)
Then the paint
I know the colour won't be to many people's taste but I fancied doing them Red.
New seals
and fitted
You'll notice a couple of chips in the paint, I ended up dropping the fooking thing while fitting the seals, luckily the caliper is perfectly fine but the paint wasn't
Then I refitted the caliper to the car
As I say, I know it won't be everyones tastes but I'm pleased with the way it looks.
Decided to just go back to single piece brake discs as I'd rather warp those than the twice as expensive 2 piece discs.
Caliper removed
My method for popping the pistons out of the calipers lol, works just as well as using a compressed air gun IMO.
All pistons, dust seals and bore seals removed.
Was a good job I'd decided to refurb the calipers as I had a couple of seized pistons, also most of the dust seals were either distorted or split.
I then sanded the calipers down to remove all the baked on brake dust and dirt that had collected over the years. Then I applied some etch primer.
(s**t pic)
Then the paint
I know the colour won't be to many people's taste but I fancied doing them Red.
New seals
and fitted
You'll notice a couple of chips in the paint, I ended up dropping the fooking thing while fitting the seals, luckily the caliper is perfectly fine but the paint wasn't
Then I refitted the caliper to the car
As I say, I know it won't be everyones tastes but I'm pleased with the way it looks.
JamesBryan
ClioSport Club Member
Decent job Jon, look good in red.
welshname
ClioSport Club Member
Decent job. I still need to refurb mine. Kit is in the shed!
You're missing some wheel nuts though...HTH.
You're missing some wheel nuts though...HTH.
Cheers mate
A lot easier to do than I expected refurbing them, as for the lack wheel bolts, less weight = 0.0001 seconds faster Trafford laps
Glad you convinced me to buy it now haha
JamesBryan
ClioSport Club Member
Fancy taking me out at Oulton in this in November Jon?
Yeah sure no worries mate.
JamesBryan
ClioSport Club Member
Cheers mate, not been out in it yet.
Few shots from the Trackday I did at weekend.
