Dum-Dums Bianca GTi6

[Jonny b]

Spend the money you'll save not doing the wheels gold on decent front suspension pweeeeeeeeeees!!

On a serious note, I'm very interested in the corner weight info etc you've got there, and how you're gonna reduce that.

Where'd you get it corner-weighed?

And finally, f*ck me 100kg extra with driver? 1st step in rallye-ifying it; rallye-ify yourself!! I joke

I know everyone is gonna whinge about the G-Max stuff but having had it on my HDi it was probably the favourite suspension Ive ever had on a 306, it felt really well damped and was really good quality.

Im not buying coilies cos Ill spend twice as much and just ruin the handling by winding it all the way down to the bump stops. Having fixed springs means i cant do that and i also get progressively wound springs too.

Ed Ill call you about the weight but im gonna try and pretty scientific about it and eventually move some bits about to try and get a better balance. I reckon without my weight its gotta be pretty close to 50/50 side to side and that i wasnt expecting.

Oh and yes Im 100kg. Remember its not the size of your nail, its the hammer you bang it in with that counts.

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Spend the money you'll save not doing the wheels gold on decent front suspension pweeeeeeeeeees!!

On a serious note, I'm very interested in the corner weight info etc you've got there, and how you're gonna reduce that.

This and this

Gold wheels as and when funds allow after the important stuff is done

The wheel colour change is already paid for and im not fitting them if they dont look right so actually looks are a priority for me.

I kinda feel uncomfortable using the term "corner weighting" as TBH what I did was a bit farmer spec and it shows.

My local tip has a weighbridge set into the ground and it is surrounded by flat level tarmac. After I had the whole car weighed I drove 1 wheel on at a time and had them weighed individually. It is to the nearest 20kg and this shows. The whole car was 1300kg with me in but the 4 corners add up to 1340kg. The thing about the weighbridge is theyve just had it re done and so itll be there for many years and so as a test it is totally repeatable. Also the Shell down the road where i filled the car with fuel will always be the same distance away so the fuel weight and that should be the same every time.

Its good enough for what Im doing and if you understand that its not perfect and that any weight could be 20kg either way and accept that then its an interesting tool and may give people here an understanding without paying a special rally company £££ to do it for you to the nearest micro gram.

I would love to see someone else do the same as me and Id also love to get the car properly corner weighted to see how far out all of this really is.

Chris the weigh bridge up in Wycombe has 4 individual pads you drive the car on! Might pop up and ask em what the deal is tomorow after work