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1998 ChangesFront and Rear Anti-Roll Bar
The front and rear anti-roll bar inner mountings were replaced with aluminium alloy blocks as you can see in the picture. This reduced the roll of the car in corners. Unfortunately it also makes the ride on normal roads more noisy. Also the alloy mounts need regular greasing as they squeal when dry, hence the grease nipple between the two fixing bolts. Springs and Ride HeightNext the lengths of both the front and rear springs was reduced to the absolute minimum, without requiring changes to the chassis. The Front springs became 550-900lb x 9". The rear springs became 240lb x 8.25". This lowered the car further and caused more negative camber to the front wheels. This made some real changes to the handling of the car as it also lowered the Centre of Gravity, hence reducing the car's roll in corners further. Unfortunately, it also meant that the rear of the car sometimes bottoms out on large bumps, and in hairpin corners. Although the front spring changes have made little or no change to the steering, the change to the rear springs have made the rear end of the car more susceptible to over steer (back end steps out) in cornering. This may be due to the axle hitting the bump stops or exhaust. Further testing showed that the worst problem was the axle fouling on the exhaust in right hand corners. The exhaust arc which goes over the axle was modified so that it was closer to the bodywork. Although the axle still bottomed out in hard cornering, at least it was bottoming out on the rubber bump stops at both sides. Back to Top |
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