Hey,

I'm slightly curious and confused regarding the track width, at the moment i have a 40mm wider front track than i do on the rear, this is because i fitted 20mm spacers to clear the brembo calipers.

my question is, is this considered safe?

the car handles fantastically and i feel neither under nor over-steer and i never have done, before or after the conversion.

i'll admit it looks ever so slightly odd but is it worth me spending another £150-200 to find out how the rear looks/handles with the wider track or do i leave it as it is?

:chin:

Thanks,
Ry

i think (maybe wrong) that wider on front is ok on fwd cars other way around is bad

Yeah a little wider at the front is cool. It's when its wider at the rear I think it can be a issue. Like a Robin Reliant.

Wider track will give you more grip at that end so it will make the car more neutral handling power off.(out of the box it will be set for safe understeer) Power on it will eventually understeer straight on so you are fine as it is. You have altered a lot of stuff like Ackerman geometry and scrub radius, but if it still feels good to steer you got away with it . The fact it seems nicer is that any keen driver likes a neutral handling car as it is more responsive. If the looks are intolerable then spacing the rears will put it back to close to factory settings for understeer without any other effects.
I put Goodyear GPs (racing narrow crossplies) on a Mini back in the 60s and they had to be spaced at the back. It defo made the car understeer more but since I had it bored to 1100cc and a stage II head on at the same time you could balance it all you wanted to with your right toe.

wider front than rear would be my preference on any FWD front engined car.

Most if not all FWD cars have a wider track at front that back which is discernible to most people, it as others have pointed out a better front end to turn and transmit the power to the road.

Even most 4WD cars do, the only cars wider at back at generally big power "coke bottle" shaped sports/high performance RWD cars.