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Author: | dollyman [ Mon Jun 29, 2020 4:12 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: VYK The Russet 78 Sprint |
Just trying to be helpful In other news, loving this thread, think Chestnut is a very underrated colour. I will see if it works Shaun Tony. |
Author: | dollyman [ Mon Jun 29, 2020 4:14 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: VYK The Russet 78 Sprint |
I am useless at computers Shaun as you can tell Tony. |
Author: | shaunroche [ Mon Jun 29, 2020 4:45 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: VYK The Russet 78 Sprint |
Quote: Quote: In other news, loving this thread, think Chestnut is a very underrated colour.
Thanks, me too!Maybe I like it because I was born in 1970 - the time when it was all the rage to pair brown and orange together! I love all those retro colours now, reminds me of my youth I guess? When i was looking to buy a sprint I wasn’t going to be too fussy on colour. They are all good colours to my eyes because they reflect that period in time perfectly. I think this, ahem, brown colour is really set off with the shiny wheels, more so than any other colour, it looks very sexy! |
Author: | shaunroche [ Mon Jun 29, 2020 11:44 pm ] |
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I am useless at computers Shaun as you can tell
Haha, get away mate! Every day's a school day!!
Tony. |
Author: | dollyman [ Mon Jul 13, 2020 10:39 am ] |
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I bet you are are still grinning Bish, well done mate The post office will sort everything out for you there and then. Tony. |
Author: | Awaiting Repair [ Mon Jul 13, 2020 1:55 pm ] |
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Congratulations! Another one saved! Well done Bish, I have enjoyed following your progress. I hope it gives you lots of smiles per mile! Keith |
Author: | Bish [ Mon Jul 13, 2020 10:16 pm ] |
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Thanks chaps for the kind words. Got the tax sorted today at the post office and went for a longer spin tonight. Great fun was had bombing around, and VYK is behaving well. I think I may be raising the suspension a little at the front soon though, just a half of an inch or so I hope will help with the rougher roads. VYKs suspension has settled down more resulting in an even lower stance, it doesn’t crash about and rides quite well considering, but I would like to strike a better balance between looks and comfort and don’t want to be worrying about grounding out. I must be getting older and a little wiser?! Gearbox is still leak free, and that makes me happy! MOT is booked for Thursday. Thanks to everyone on this forum for all of your help over the last couple of years. I wouldn’t be where I am today without the forum, and that’s a fact. |
Author: | Carledo [ Mon Jul 13, 2020 10:38 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: VYK The Russet 78 Sprint |
If you are running Gaz ASPs or one of the similar brands, you can expect some initial settling and adjustment will be required. I reckon about 3 weeks from install, then another at 6 months then a final tweak and levelling off at about a year. That's assuming you don't do a lot of alterations for trackdays etc. Steve |
Author: | Bish [ Mon Jul 13, 2020 11:14 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: VYK The Russet 78 Sprint |
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If you are running Gaz ASPs or one of the similar brands, you can expect some initial settling and adjustment will be required. I reckon about 3 weeks from install, then another at 6 months then a final tweak and levelling off at about a year. That's assuming you don't do a lot of alterations for trackdays etc.
Thanks for that Steve. I’m going to raise VYK a little on the front, rears are perfect. VYKs got a slight nose down stance at the moment. I’ll level the car out for now and have a play with the settings ( at the moment they are all set around the middle of the clicks on the knurled adjuster ) and see how I go. I’m running GAZ. Any recomemdations on the position of the knurled adjuster and tyre pressures? I was thinking 28 psi front and 26 rear? Just looking for the right settings for road, for now.
Steve |
Author: | yorkshire_spam [ Thu Jul 16, 2020 8:42 am ] |
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Fresh MOT! No advisories and a clean slate.
Brilliant result! Always nice to have somebody else validate your hard work and fail to find anything to quibble about!
Happy days indeed. |
Author: | Carledo [ Thu Jul 16, 2020 10:45 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: VYK The Russet 78 Sprint |
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If you are running Gaz ASPs or one of the similar brands, you can expect some initial settling and adjustment will be required. I reckon about 3 weeks from install, then another at 6 months then a final tweak and levelling off at about a year. That's assuming you don't do a lot of alterations for trackdays etc.
Thanks for that Steve. I’m going to raise VYK a little on the front, rears are perfect. VYKs got a slight nose down stance at the moment. I’ll level the car out for now and have a play with the settings ( at the moment they are all set around the middle of the clicks on the knurled adjuster ) and see how I go. I’m running GAZ. Any recomemdations on the position of the knurled adjuster and tyre pressures? I was thinking 28 psi front and 26 rear? Just looking for the right settings for road, for now.
Steve At least you don't have my Vauxhall created problem, where the sump plug is the lowest point of the car! Which can have nasty consequences! Fortunately (for ME anyway) I learned this the easy way from a colleague with a redtop powered car and the same Carlton sump, he ripped his plug clean out! Which has made me more than a touch paranoid about getting my car too low! I would say it needs to lift maybe 1.5" at the front and maybe a 1/2" at the rear for comfort, though it depends a lot on where you live and the pothole count! For Shox, a very base setting I would consider 3/4 hard at the front and 1/4 hard at the rear, this is a RWD standard, keep the front hard and the tail soft for best results, on tyre pressures I run 28 all round, which works for me but my car is so far from stock, it's not really a good indicator. I have to drop the rear pressure to 12 psi on the dragstrip, it's worth nearly a full second on ET and stops it lighting the tyres in 2nd gear as well as all the way through 1st! But congrats on getting it back on the road, it looks terrific! Steve |
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