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Re: ke11 suspension upgrades

> A man look is a look where you don't have a proper look and don't see things
properly...
> According to my other half.

iguess she knows you best ;)

> http://www.rollaclub.com/board/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=40729
>
> that doesn't look like a poor install.... maybe the different brands are
slightly different? or maybe it has something to do with the length of the link
pins?

hmm, the design looks a bit different. the silvery one looks like it comes from
the front clamp, immediately out at an angle.
from memory, the K-mac one goes back straight for a bit..
it also seems to have the ends a bti further in.

i am not sure longer pins will make a different, as it is the fat slide part of
the caliper thta should hit?

would be worth someone measuring both, or even lining them up for comparison.





Sat Jun 20, 2009 12:11 pm

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So far, I've established that the following would be a good idea. Feel free to correct me on anything. Remove transverse leaves from front, install swaybar...
rob83ke70
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Jun 8, 2009
7:11 am

to be completely honest, in order to have any sort of 'good handling' in a ke11, you will need to make some significant structural changes that on a 40 year...
Alex Bates
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Jun 8, 2009
7:32 am

It has a set of 185/70r13 tyres on it at the moment, I've never had dramas turning the wheels with 185 or 195 tyres. The rims that are on it will probably do...
rob83ke70
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Jun 8, 2009
9:12 am

on the 3 ke10s i have had, removing the leaf changed the camber from about +8 to about zero degrees i dont know 'how' but it does! alex ... [Non-text portions...
Alex Bates
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Jun 8, 2009
9:19 am

eight degrees positive holy shit!!! are you sure??? I'd be thinking the ride height might have come down a bit which would make the lower control arms move in...
rob83ke70
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Jun 8, 2009
9:38 am

you can see it very clearly when you use narrow (145 or 155) tyres and when the front end has fresh bushes and tie rod ends etc. ... [Non-text portions of this...
Alex Bates
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Jun 8, 2009
9:46 am

remember that the weight of the car originally goes into the chassis rails (they are double layer to the cross-member), not the strut towers. some people have...
oldcorollas
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Jun 8, 2009
12:43 pm

so you reckon I should leave the leaves in the front? I was going to put strut bracing from strut tower to firewall to strut tower. APPARENTLY, nothing bad...
rob83ke70
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Jun 13, 2009
6:48 am

i woudl say to leave the leaf system in, but get new springs made to bring the front down a bit. alex ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Alex Bates
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Jun 13, 2009
7:07 am

remember some cars had single leaf and some cars had double leaf springs. start with a single leaf, or get a double leaf reset? Rob, the KE1X already has...
oldcorollas
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Jun 13, 2009
12:44 pm

I've got a ke10 and a ke11 in the yard here, both have disc front brakes, and both have quite a few leaves in the front, are there single leaf front ends? I...
rob83ke70
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Jun 17, 2009
11:00 am

maybe you should have a closer look ;) there are single leaf, and twin leaf springs for KE1X. more than 2 leaves is not factory. man look? wtf is that? maybe...
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Jun 19, 2009
4:20 pm

... A man look is a look where you don't have a proper look and don't see things properly... According to my other half. I had a look at the cars just then and...
rob83ke70
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Jun 20, 2009
3:39 am

... iguess she knows you best ;) ... hmm, the design looks a bit different. the silvery one looks like it comes from the front clamp, immediately out at an...
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Jun 20, 2009
12:12 pm

... Actually Stewart this is a pretty common term :-( but thankfully Anna doesn't use it on me John -- P-plate adventurer -- http://indigoid.org/...
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