Courty89
New member
Posted on here before about this issue with no definitive answers, most common sort of answers I got were track rods not being long enough and driveshafts falling out due to not being long enough.
Well now I have some answers....
Yesterday I was working on my car when I realised the rear bushes on my wishbones were going and the n/s ball joint had gone. I had a pair of 20vt wishbones in the back of the garage with bushes and ball joints in good nick so to save money decided to fit them. When everything was bolted back up straight away I could confirm the driveshafts WON'T fall out and total front track increase is 49mm or nearly 2 inches!!! My coupe alloys now are no longer burried in the arches, with the tracking unchanged the car had massive toe-out of around 5-10 degrees and was massively unstable and undrivable even at low speeds so some adjustments were needed. After around an hour for set, test, set, test...(I have no tracking gear so do it by eye and driving feel) I got the tracking reasonable with slight toe-in and the difference is amazing!!! So much more grip on turn in and mid corner making the bravo like a go-kart, no understeer, this was all done in the wet when grip levels were low anyway. Stance wise the car looks a lot more purposeful now with the wider stance and with some negative camber on the front just improves the look.
The only thing I would suggest is a set of longer track rod ends, although the standard ones will reach I don't think there is much thread left on them so some longer ones will have a slight strength increase and reliability but alround simple to do and effective, I will uploads some pictures when I take some.
Cheers fella's....
Well now I have some answers....
Yesterday I was working on my car when I realised the rear bushes on my wishbones were going and the n/s ball joint had gone. I had a pair of 20vt wishbones in the back of the garage with bushes and ball joints in good nick so to save money decided to fit them. When everything was bolted back up straight away I could confirm the driveshafts WON'T fall out and total front track increase is 49mm or nearly 2 inches!!! My coupe alloys now are no longer burried in the arches, with the tracking unchanged the car had massive toe-out of around 5-10 degrees and was massively unstable and undrivable even at low speeds so some adjustments were needed. After around an hour for set, test, set, test...(I have no tracking gear so do it by eye and driving feel) I got the tracking reasonable with slight toe-in and the difference is amazing!!! So much more grip on turn in and mid corner making the bravo like a go-kart, no understeer, this was all done in the wet when grip levels were low anyway. Stance wise the car looks a lot more purposeful now with the wider stance and with some negative camber on the front just improves the look.
The only thing I would suggest is a set of longer track rod ends, although the standard ones will reach I don't think there is much thread left on them so some longer ones will have a slight strength increase and reliability but alround simple to do and effective, I will uploads some pictures when I take some.
Cheers fella's....
Id definatly look at getting the right track rod ends as soon as possible. If theres very little bolt thread making contact the threads will rip off fairly quickly.
