Not quite track. Mr Gormsby's L200

And onto the suspension - take one.

Some Hyanudai rear Koni Sport Dampers were added and spring coils removed (cutting coils lowers and increases rate). Front struts were opened up new bronze bushes made, legs shortened, spring seat lowered, coils removed from springs, damper shafts machined down, new microcell bump stops found to replaced the smashed to pieces rubber ones, new thread machined onto the ends and prob 15 or 20wt fork oil added (what looked like grey-black water had come out and what went back in was the thickest that had been sitting on the shelf at the time - without using engine or gearbox oil). The shorter struts bought the front down 75mm and still gave 70mm upward travel before hitting the bump stops and about the same travel in drop. Mazada mags fitted.

The new big wheels rubbed with the desired neg camber so some angle was backed off at the strut-hub connection and a bit added by cutting and shutting the strut tops. Rubbers were linished down a bit and a Delrin spacer added above to lower it in the front a bit more without taking suspension travel away. <img
This lets the top move inward for some more neg camber and rearward slightly for more castor

(note that in the above picture the top is pushed outward on someone’s car whereas it ended up being pushed nearer the center of the car)

And though better it still “sucked”. Turn in was improved but with the wheel hubs sitting out on the axle (instead of the more modern practice of wheel hub locating in a bearing in the brake/steering knuckle) there seem to be axle flex as indicated under hard cornering when the axles flexed and the disc outer edge was rubbing on the calipers (yes the axle nuts where done up. Gormsby has a 3/4" torque wrench which is over 5’ long). EFIMira’s M100 Sirion front was about to be copied and M100 drums put aft. The 100 pcd era was on the horizon. A parts collection began in readiness for suspension take two and it would not be suspension alone that ended up being changed.

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