When I bought my 2+2 Turbo it was extremely low and was a pain to drive,
crashing and bumping over rough roads and torque steering when throttle was
used especially when pulling out and overtaking. In fact it was hard to avoid
hitting the car I was overtaking!After taking advice from the members here and
especially Jim I bought some fiesta 1400 fronts and 1100 rears as I recall, and
that was 5 years ago and since then my wife and I have done many trackdays and
road miles with no problems.Here is a
videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAnB-h9PhgM where we play with a Lambo
Gallardo who had my wife on board and later he took me round too and being in a
supercar driven flat out is a great experience!CheersJon
On Thursday, 30 March 2017, 21:27, Jim Hearne <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Dave, I presume that your car was made before Quantum decided the rear of
the car was too low and added the spacer to the shock and the got the longer
rear springs made.
I don't think it disagrees with what i said, just your car pre-dates it being
implemented.
I'm sure the intention with the 2+2 when it was designed was that it could
take XR2 suspension parts, they just got the calculations a bit wrong to start
with.
Jim
On 30/03/2017 20:33, Dave English wrote:
Hi Calum
I've got Q2-009 which is definately an early one.
Originally I had the standard XR2 springs on the front and standard Mk2 1100
springs on the rear, tyres where 185/60 13's (again standard XR2). The rear XR2
springs were too short, the rear tyres sitting against the inner arch before
the springs took the weight.
I've checked my build manual and looked at the car, and there is nothing on
top of the shocks or the springs. The shocks were (and still are) standard XR2.
The only 'spacer' is inside the spring for the bump stop, it doesn't affect the
spring or shock length.
Hopefully a picture is attached showing my car with this set-up (the one with
the tent behind it). This is about as low as you want to go, a rough road would
see my stainless steel manifold hitting the ground, I've now got a thick plate
welded to it.
I currently run with the Quantum springs and 185/60 14 tyres on Sierra wheels
(185/60 13's were getting hard to find). It's a little softer and a bit higher
off the ground but the bigger tyres help to the fill the arches. I don't know
if these tyres would work with XR2 front springs because I changed my springs a
while before I changed the wheels. The second photo shows this set-up.
Your 185/55 14 set-up has the same diameter as the standard XR2 tyres so XR2
front springs will be about right but don't put XR2 springs on the rear.
I know that this info disagrees with some other posts but I went and looked at
the car to confirm what I thought and read my 2+2 build manuals (I have an
early one, partially photo copied from hand written, and a later, standard
one). The way I have described it is what the manual says and what I saw under
the car.
Hope this helps and doesn't add too much confusion.
Regards
Dave English
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