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Re: What should i get next....	Tue, 15 February 2005 00:42

Heres some info on the st rally car : http://www.rallycars.com/Cars/Toyota_GT4/Street_Ce lica_ST165.html After working on st's all i can say is there a very well build car which i don't think you would get much lighter . Not to mention that the suspension geometry is for a front/four wheel drive operation , and has no great room for any easy modifications to get the amount of camber , or more importantly in a heavy car caster . The front suspension would be a pain in the ass to get to the car to handle and to have the amount of steering lock close to Simons ae86 . And the front suspension relationship to the rear might be such a balance that changing the front makes the rear unstable . Then if you look at the Weight distrubution F/R: 59/41 and figure moving more drivetrain mass into the front , it could have a center of mass very far foward . But really someone of nissansilvia didn't have a bad idea . Since there seems to be large amounts of money being spend buy some Holden related industry's into Drift now , why not approach the opposition . Lets look at this Holden vs Ford . Well suspension which is really the key to the drift speed and cost to set up . The front suspension there really is not comparison , the V8 supercars of Holden use the Ford front suspension since there are since producting old MacPherson strut designs in there road cars . Ford has moved to a front double wishbone suspension , well its not a real double wishbone set up more a duel arm located strut like the Honda's / Merc's of ten years ago . Its still a good system and large camber and caster easily changed without the need of altering the lower arm and ackermann angles . Then onto the rear , the Holden has Control-Link Independent Rear Suspension (IRS). Semi-trailing arm , Progressive rate miniblock coil springs , Stabiliser bar , yes well it had that years ago directly pulled off the Opel Omega's , it looks like a copy of say a 80's bmw . That rear system needs huge modifications to change any angles and really isn't very easy without changing components . Now the Ford system independent rear suspension with multi-link Control Blade , yes a long lower arm to control large amounts of torque compared to the Holden . Maybe after years of having the live axle with the control arms coming to behind the front seats on the race cars they thought it was a good idea on a road car . Then if you add lots of used supercars parts teams etc , maybe he was going in the right direction [Report message to a moderator]

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