jon

Do you work for them...sign up today and your first post is a link to a rival site!! I don't think Tony needs to be worried of the competition anyway Edit - Looking at your email yes you do! Nicely spotted! The marketing department must be doing the rounds!!

There seems to be a bit of a shortage on at the moment. I know from my site interest in winter tyres has shot through the roof!

Don't think like that Daz, anything is possible

Writing a bit of an idiots guide to winter tyres. Any other suggestions before i make it live? http://www.tyrereviews.co.uk/Article/reaso...inter-tyres.htm

Yes. HTH (I normally go into the 40s)

Ok, I've put it in for the 12th. Still happy to get there early and rush it through so you can have a car on the ramps for 9... PS Are you sure you know how to do MX5s?

12th? I can swing by at 8.30 or something so you can have someone on the ramps at 9?

Aw. Tony Bones - illusion shatterer

Bad chassis, or owner with more money than talent?

Worth me turning up this saturday and running someone off the ramp?

Right, got them fitted. You have to remove the main arm where it meets the body, then the stuck side I shouted at it a bit more then used a massive hammer. Car feels a little better already Tony, not quite right yet. Will have to sneak it over to you sometime. Hopefully the castor will be fairly quick to do!

longer? Don't you mean shorter? They fix in front of the hub. Yep, shorter....... who said longer No one called Tony, that's for sure! One side came off fine, but the NSF just won't budge now the 2 bolts are undone that hold the tension arm to the main arm. I've tried jacking it up off the bolts, hitting it with a hammer, screaming at it and it just won't budge. Does anyone have any recommendations other than removing the main arm? I can't really be bothered with removing all that. I might try shouting at it some more...

longer? Don't you mean shorter? They fix in front of the hub.

Nice and evenly too. I'm going to blame it on your agressive driving style

Right Tony, one for you. I've got the adjustable tension rods and hope to fit them this weekend. While I will be bringing the car to you as soon as I can I'd like to try and get the castor a bit closer to where it should be while fitting them. The current castor is: Front left: +2o 44' Front Right: +1o 13' Cross: 1o 13' Target: 3o 15' +- 0o 30' SAI: 16o 02' both sides Target: 13o 50' I will be measuring the new rods against the existing ones to make sure I get the length the same, but during this process it would make sense to adjust the front right caster in the correct direction. My question is, which way does it need to be (shorter or longer) and by appox, how much? I'm thinking the wheel needs to move forward a little so potentially 5-10mm adjustment... A nice simple one

Back to my original post, the most important thing is knowing how your car is currently set, and how you want it to be. Me and Tony have tried loads of different setups, I think the best fast road setup was fairly stock, just a little more aggressive on the cambers (not by much). I didn't think toe out works at all for the light fronted SW20. The setups that were fast on track really didn't give me much confidence on the road as I liked my car very tail happy on track. Once you get used to driving the 2 you can still drive tail happy with a normal setup just with technique (trailing brake etc) No turbo mr2 handles that well in the wet, whatever the setup the combination of a big turbo and mid engined makes balancing the car very difficult.

Right, I'll have to pick up a set of those as the car is impossible to drive fast at the moment.

Hmmm, perhaps turbo rev can advise how much adjustment he has.

Not that I can talk. My castor is so far out I actually get cramp in my hand from driving it I have to hold the wheel so tight to fight the bump steer!! I must order those tension rods! Given how far my castor is out do you know how much adjustment I'll need. The tein ones only have 5mm or so IIRC.

That's gonna be a handful!

Where did you get the tension rods from? I need to order some ASAP.

If it's your first trackday go somewhere near stock with a little more camber, learn how the car feels then work out what you want. I've not found a decent setting yet for my dampers.

Couple of others

Tony hard at work Thanks again for sat tony, she does feel much better. You were 100% right about the castor though, she doesn't like self correcting at all and the bump steer is VICIOUS. I'll be getting adjustable tie rods ASAP as I don't have any confidence to drive hard on the road at the moment, the slightest bump has the car steering for a ditch!

Is anyone coming tomorrow? I'm just wondering whether I need to bother with the second seat tonight...