Talat

Yeah the reason they were originally fitted was on the recommendation of a guy in Australia who reckons that they really help with rear traction - considering that the car should be producing another 100bhp when the bigger turbo goes on, I thought it might be a good investment T.

Hi all, Whilst speaking to my mechanic last night, it appears that the subframe had sustained some damage and that is why the wheel was bent inwards when I first took the car to him. He repaired the damage and managed to get the wheel straight. Later on the subframe was dropped to fit some uprated bushes and everything looked ok. I still have all the stock arms and my mechanic has assured me that he can get the wheels back to their previous state. So the initial plan of action is to get the wheels back to their previous state and then start to make adjustments to see if the rear traction can be improved. One other thing that we noticed was that the rear traction arms were replaced with uprated items but these have some play in them and produce a knocking sound - my mechanic thinks that they're possibly defective and so one of the things we'll try is swapping back the stock arms to see if it makes any difference. Cheers, T.

Cheers for the input. The car seems to have developed a misfire and once that gets sorted I shall contact TDI to arrange a time to book the car in. Sam@TDi - do you reckon that it can be fixed in a day or would I have to leave car with you ? Cheers, Talat.

Thanks for the welcome Hopefully I can get this problem sorted sooner rather than later as I fancy doing some track days in the not too distant future. Cheers, Talat.

Hi Tony, Was good to meet you today but a pity that you couldn't work your magic on this car. Just to give some background info to pad out your initial post - when the car was bought in Japan it looked like this: http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o172/JZ...75Mark2left.jpg As you can see the rear wheel looks bent inwards. We were not sure why it was in that state and so assumed that the previous owner crashed the car into a kerb or something and did a quick bodge to get it fairly straight before selling it on. In that state the cars backend felt fairly light and it would wheelspin under moderate power. I decided to uprate the shocks to coilovers and my mechanic managed to get the wheel looking fairly straight - in that guise it handled ok but still had the tendancy to spin the rears at moderate power levels - in hindsight I'm not sure if this was due to poor rubber. Anyhoo, the final phase was to uprate all the bushes and fit adjustable arms etc. At this stage I decided to take it to a specialist alignment place and it now looks like this: http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o172/JZ...2/jzx100_01.jpg It doesn't look right and more to the point I don't think it handles right. I really need to find someone who can position those rear wheels correctly. As an aside, the car is actually a Toyota Mark 2 and is fairly popular in Australia but is only available as an import as far as I am aware Cheers, Talat.