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KW Coilovers Ordered!
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Woody
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All fitted and seem fine. K-Tec were great, so thanks to them.
They did say that my rear camber issue would never have been improved with the standard set-up, so hopefully I'll get more out of my rubber!
Not a huge difference to way the car drives but then again I haven't really thrown it around yet but so far so good. Tried to push it in the Lakes but that Irish bloke on that chocolate Vee was in my way :rofl:
Love you James :race:
They did say that my rear camber issue would never have been improved with the standard set-up, so hopefully I'll get more out of my rubber!
Not a huge difference to way the car drives but then again I haven't really thrown it around yet but so far so good. Tried to push it in the Lakes but that Irish bloke on that chocolate Vee was in my way :rofl:
Love you James :race:
Woody
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looch":r6h440rt said:
K-Tec didn't seem to have any trouble at all. However, to enable everything to be set up, i.e. Camber & Toe, they unfortunately sheared the rear nearside track control rod! It was unavoidable and they were given a 7-10 day lead time on a replacement from France! K-Tec, with my permission, had the old rod drilled and tapped to accommodate an M14 x 100mm threaded bar. It was thread-locked and welded in position, cut to length and Track Rod End fitted, job done. Hat off to K-Tec :bow:
Got a set on the way for my car, after working in top level motorsports for several years and knowing what one off parts cost I was shocked at renaults price for standard rear dampers, ESP as they are very poor quality, I could have had a set of 4 ohlins made to measure for less than 2 rear Renault ones....... But time is of the essence so decided to go down the kw route. Will sort the geometry with what I think should be a good set up and then drop it on the scales and get the corner weights right. Should all be a big help
thunderstarter
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Dominicd":3mitica5 said:
Out of interest what were you quoted for a set of Ohlins? I took another car of mine into an Ohlins specialst near me the other week and he has a Ph1 Clio V6. He had priced up a full set of Ohlins for his car (at cost to him) it was gonna be near to £6k and that was using Bilstein Casings!... apparently the Ohlins cases alone are over £1200 each!
I think I may go down the KW route at some point based on this, I cant justify spending that much on suspension.
That's very strong money for ohlins, that's the kind of area you could get xtc or Reiger dampers made for, even as a one off, ohlins would come in around £3000 area, which is only fractionally above Renault money and for a massively superior product, the ohlins would be outstanding on a circuit car you would only need xtc or Reiger on a gravel rally car, something that unless you name is Jean ragnotti is best to avoid in a V6....
