[bold_statement] Leave the suspension alone... [/bold_statement]

Was chatting to Graham Varley at Cadwell on Monday, and he has three way Nitrons fitted, and is having hell of a problem getting them set up right. He advised me to keep to the Billys.

It is apparently true that Bilstein and a rather talented bloke spent a lot of time at Bristol Avenue setting up the Sagaris suspension, and it certainly worked great for me at Cadwell (but I'm no racing driver !)

3 way dampers means the possibility of 3 times the opportunity to get it wrong at each end. If you don't know how 3 ways work, buy one way dampers. Graham has been badly advised, or given insufficient tuition on how to set them up. It's not the fault of the dampers.

We are all entiteld to try different things... and it's great that we have these options...

Until I can drive to a degree that I feel the suspension is 'affecting' me, then I'll leave it alone. Obviously, Graham uses his car on the track a lot, and is therefore searching for a setting that he likes and suits him, and in no way was I saying Nitrons are not worth the investment. By all accounts, they more than often are.

There is nothing at all wrong with the standard Sagaris suspension components in good condition for road and trackday use. While a Griff or a Chim will benefit massively from a Nitron upgrade, a Sagaris sadly? will not.


Get some new ones and polish them before you fit them .

I find it very hard to believe that a power increase in the % we are discussing here would cause that to be the case, but if it is, then I supsect you are on a long and difficult journey to get your car back to being the complete package it once was. Good luck

Enjoy the learning Don, I'm sure youll have fun.

Before the remap, yes, was doing charity rides for The Supercar event. Quick would cover it. It did highlight the tyres/suspension need though.

(Mind you the tyres are 4 years and 5 trackdays old... and still legal!)

One for Graham too... We found them to be marginally better than the original harvey bailey dampers on our T350 - and somehow massively uncomfortable. We then set them up as guided by Tailslide - who's done extensive set up work with them and they were much better... We've played since as our two cars set up differs quite a bit in terms of wheels and tyres - even more so recently... and they're better still IMHO. On our current wheel and tyres set up, they're remarkably compliant, yet the body control is fantastic. We've got a few different set ups saved that we like to use; Road comfort, sprint/hillclimb B road, Paul B road, track and drag. We rarely feel the need to go back to road comfort now, such is the quality of the damping.

Basically, stick with it Graham, its a long and fun learning curve!

One other key thing to watch is that they're all set the same... sounds daft, but the amount of times I personally (and I am a bit particular with this stuff) have put set a corner slightly differently by accident - it makes a big difference IME.

Enjoy!

Mine had TVR Power 19's on it when I bought it, and standard suspension, with Kuhmo Ecsta tyres, and all in all I think that is a very good set up - not had any casue to complain with last summers Track Days or spirited driving.

I've now put Hankook's on and they certainly look the business, have really good reviews, an although took a bit of scrubbing in, they were great at Cadwell last week.

Don I would suggest newer tyres would be the first change fofr you - 5 year old rubber probably not at it's best.

I'd much prefer a set of trackday tyres - R888 or the like. The only problem is not many come in 19" format.