Already fitted to the engine when I got it
Already fitted to the engine when I got it
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Lol
Not with the size of my stomach anyway.
My gt40 guru however is concerned about the angle of my rear wheels and tyres. He watched me drive away and can see daylight under the outer area of the tyre to road area. The tyres do tuck in a lot.
Is this due to the size of my tyre, red9 set up or a theme with rear swing arm?
Great new on the MOT
Car looks great plus another Nova hits the road.
Very well done
Cheers.
Mostin.
“A plan is only a means of measuring where things went wrong”
My guess, and it is only a guess is its due to tyre width. With swing axle the wheels will always tuck up and the width just exacerbates the angle and loss of contact area. Raising the suspension would reduce this but would also spoil the bad ass look
I can't remember all the details on his chassis and too tired to look through his posts, but with Monster wheels also he managed to not have the tucked under look
http://www.sterlingkitcars.com/membe...html#post20307
Last edited by islandman; 12-05-2017 at 04:14 PM.
Well done. Great to see another Nova successfully returned to the road.
Looking forward to Castle Coombe
Bushboy
"Always do what you are afraid to do"
"I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying"
First - well done of getting that MoT!
The daylight under the tyre tread is due to the combination of swing-axle camber and the width of the tyre. Dr Porsche never anticipated anything more than a 165mm tread width on his skinny steel wheels.
What tyre pressures are you using? If you are above 24 psi you could try dropping the pressure a bit, this will allow more of the tread to contact the road. I wouldn't go much below 22 psi though. Unfortunately the only way to properly address this is to increase the static ride height to bring the camber back towards zero.
It is quite normal to see Novas with around 2 degrees of negative camber on the back. Look out for excessive wear on the inner shoulders of the tyres as you put the miles on, as these are in contact with the road all the time. Also be careful about losing grip at the back under cornering - the contact patch is very variable, particularly with swing axles.
Other than that - enjoy your car
Lauren
only Pythagoras can save me now!
I have to agree with Lauren there; My old bug and the rolling box of spare parts I bought before it had a similar issue on the rear, more so on the box of parts due to the width of the tires.
The tires on the bug were deep tread "off road" tires and took a while to "break in" but the wear on the inner tread compared to the outer was very noticeable and as mentioned, this made cornering VERY interesting and may be part of the reason why I spun out when I was too young and stupid to know better at the time. (No damage to myself or the car on that occasion, except to my pride and nerves, I did mow down a fair chunk of tall grass and a bush, however)