My search for improved suspension started today with a trip to Meteor motorsport to measure up the Aero for new dampers / springs.
First thing was to take the corner weights, without driver 307.5 / 311.6 front and 333.5 / 322 kg rear.
With a fat bloke in the drivers seat 311 / 330.5 front 355 / 367 kg rear. Shows how far back the engine in the chassis, that the bias is to the rear, which quite surprised me.
Next some measuring to establish the motion ratio (Damper to wheel), the rear was easy enough but the nose really needs to come off for the front so we will do that another day.
It appeared that the bush for the bottom mount of the rear damper is welded in situ! Has anybody removed a rear damper?
At the moment the favourite damper is a Quantum possibly one way adjustable, if the adjuster can be engineered into the rather short damper body. It looks like spring rate can be increased with improved damper control by possibly 20%. Which should stop the rear wheel making contact with the arch on compressions.
In other news, Rimstock can supply 17" rims in Aero sizes, which should improve ride on the road, hopefully they will clear the front brakes (they've sent me a PDF of a section of the wheel to make a cardboard template to check.
Wish I'd thought of that before I fitted new Yokos to the stock rims, Doh!
Last edited by Gareth H; 14/09/18 04:16 PM.
