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Gayno's 4th Gen
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Re: Gayno's 4th Gen
Post by Gayno » Tue Apr 10, 2012 3:56 pm
No timing equipment, just a load of fun for everyone involved!!
Basically just a run up to a cone, round and back again!
See this video taken by Confused.... (I'm driving his Legnum)
[youtube]MM0xl_Du9v0[/youtube]
Basically just a run up to a cone, round and back again!
See this video taken by Confused.... (I'm driving his Legnum)
[youtube]MM0xl_Du9v0[/youtube]
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Post by mercutio » Tue Apr 10, 2012 5:22 pm
looks loads of fun 

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Dino wrote:I loves the 5th gen really.... just dont quote me on it...
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Re: Gayno's 4th Gen
Post by Gayno » Tue Apr 10, 2012 5:25 pm
Well if anyone would like to join in, the next one should be around August time.
Regular JPOC members get first refusal as it's obviously a popular event, so get over there, sign up and get involved with posting etc and you'll make yourselves higher on the list come next time!
Regular JPOC members get first refusal as it's obviously a popular event, so get over there, sign up and get involved with posting etc and you'll make yourselves higher on the list come next time!
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Re: Gayno's 4th Gen
Post by Gayno » Tue Apr 10, 2012 11:07 pm
tad embarassing then, as it's only temporary!rich-kez wrote:lovely looking car mate! standard rear lights make such an improvement!
The LED one's are off as I'm redesigning the layout of the LEDs!!
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Re: Gayno's 4th Gen
Post by Gayno » Fri Apr 20, 2012 5:14 pm
Engine idle problem now sorted, now sits happily at ~600rpm and no bouncing, yay!
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Post by 4thgenphil » Fri Apr 20, 2012 5:20 pm
do tell!Gayno wrote:Engine idle problem now sorted, now sits happily at ~600rpm and no bouncing, yay!

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Post by bristol_bb4 » Fri Apr 20, 2012 8:15 pm
Awesome mate! No excuse to not organise a little drive now then!
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Dropping The Ride Height
Post by Gayno » Sat Apr 21, 2012 2:53 pm
So after fitting my coilovers 3 weeks ago, I've driven around and let them settle, but they were still too high for my liking. As they were, the car sits about 10mm higher than it did on the Eibach springs that were on there previously, and it just looked like it was on stilts!
The great thing about these BC Racing coilovers, and I'm sure many others, is that the ride height is set completely seperately from the spring rate, so no matter how low you go, you still have full travel within the shock.
Advice from PAW suggested that the front is lowered upto 5mm more than the rear, as this will aid with high speed stability, and as I will be doing a fair bit of motorway travel, I took this advice!
So I set about, dodging the rain, to lower them!
The rear was dropped by 20mm, an approximate drop of 40mm from standard.
The front was dropped by 22mm, an approximate drop of 42mm from standard.
And so to the pics.
This is how it looked the other week after they'd been fitted:

Rear dropped:

Front dropped:

I think I go it just about right, a very slight nose down broken suspension look, but overall not scraping the floor.
Oh, and of course the obligatory "ooops I slipped, FCUKING SH!TTING BOLLOX" photo taken after I'd washed up, finger was pretty much covered in blood by the time I'd finished all 4 shocks!

The great thing about these BC Racing coilovers, and I'm sure many others, is that the ride height is set completely seperately from the spring rate, so no matter how low you go, you still have full travel within the shock.
Advice from PAW suggested that the front is lowered upto 5mm more than the rear, as this will aid with high speed stability, and as I will be doing a fair bit of motorway travel, I took this advice!
So I set about, dodging the rain, to lower them!
The rear was dropped by 20mm, an approximate drop of 40mm from standard.
The front was dropped by 22mm, an approximate drop of 42mm from standard.
And so to the pics.
This is how it looked the other week after they'd been fitted:

Rear dropped:

Front dropped:

I think I go it just about right, a very slight nose down broken suspension look, but overall not scraping the floor.
Oh, and of course the obligatory "ooops I slipped, FCUKING SH!TTING BOLLOX" photo taken after I'd washed up, finger was pretty much covered in blood by the time I'd finished all 4 shocks!

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