Hello there, im bungee and I race a mk2 vts round and round at standlake arena (near witney, Oxfordshire) in their unlimited cc fwd non contact class.
5 meets so far and apart from finding out how the front end is made of cheese its going good.
Apart from stripping the hell out of it, cage, stripped loom, kirkey seat, 5 point harness, one off column, battery and fuel tank in back its pretty standard as we're not allowed to do anything to running gear apart from cut, heat and weld the springs.
Its lowered a bit and cross weighted a touch to put a bit extra weight on the front right/rear left to prevent too much unloading on fr wheel when constantly turning right.
c5 rims help weight.
Abs not used.
right enough about the car my questions are.
when breaking stuff as contact does happen im after knowing what saxo bits I can use from the scrappy.
1 struts are shot, are vts different in there rate of movement, camber, castor etc to rest of range, same or not as mk1 gear, can I change bearings to use flat or tapered driveshats in any strut?
2 springs same rate throughout range or vts, vtr stiffer, not worried re length as they get cut anyway
3 bottom arms any different lengths between models or all same?
4 track rod ends all the same, the long hexagonal bar they fit into all the same, surely?
5 looks like I can fit my trailing arms and torsion bars, roll bar to any saxo beam, yes no?
6 driveshafts, looks like they are all either flat or tapered with no other difference, yes no?
7 any of the above match ax gear as always a few ax's at the track and handy for sharing spares with us with saxo's
Obviously I've been looking all over the forum and think I've found most of the answers but there is always someone with that extra bit of info that's always useful.
If any one is Swindon area and interested in going racing on the cheap at standlake im happy to help with car building to go racing.
ive raced bangers, novas, f2's and now the saxo.
Or come say hello in the pits, saloon rod 253 bungee
also I have a set of scales if anyone wants to check their cross weights etc.
cheers all in advance.......bungee
5 meets so far and apart from finding out how the front end is made of cheese its going good.
Apart from stripping the hell out of it, cage, stripped loom, kirkey seat, 5 point harness, one off column, battery and fuel tank in back its pretty standard as we're not allowed to do anything to running gear apart from cut, heat and weld the springs.
Its lowered a bit and cross weighted a touch to put a bit extra weight on the front right/rear left to prevent too much unloading on fr wheel when constantly turning right.
c5 rims help weight.
Abs not used.
right enough about the car my questions are.
when breaking stuff as contact does happen im after knowing what saxo bits I can use from the scrappy.
1 struts are shot, are vts different in there rate of movement, camber, castor etc to rest of range, same or not as mk1 gear, can I change bearings to use flat or tapered driveshats in any strut?
2 springs same rate throughout range or vts, vtr stiffer, not worried re length as they get cut anyway
3 bottom arms any different lengths between models or all same?
4 track rod ends all the same, the long hexagonal bar they fit into all the same, surely?
5 looks like I can fit my trailing arms and torsion bars, roll bar to any saxo beam, yes no?
6 driveshafts, looks like they are all either flat or tapered with no other difference, yes no?
7 any of the above match ax gear as always a few ax's at the track and handy for sharing spares with us with saxo's
Obviously I've been looking all over the forum and think I've found most of the answers but there is always someone with that extra bit of info that's always useful.
If any one is Swindon area and interested in going racing on the cheap at standlake im happy to help with car building to go racing.
ive raced bangers, novas, f2's and now the saxo.
Or come say hello in the pits, saloon rod 253 bungee
also I have a set of scales if anyone wants to check their cross weights etc.
cheers all in advance.......bungee