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04-04-2012, 07:16 PM | #242 |
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heres stage one of the controller. made it for camping tomorrow, running off some 18ah 22v lithium battery packs I built. inbuilt voltage protection (adjustable), the knob is to adjust the brightness of the light which plugs into the banana plugs. neat hey. stupid bright too
on 15v... Stage 2 will involve mounting it in my bumper, wiring it up to the foglights and wiring the pot to a factory switch used for dimming the interior dash lights
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05-04-2012, 05:28 PM | #243 |
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Hey guys. I made it to toowoomba, but there's something seriously wrong with something between the gearbox and the road. The car was fine with standard suspension and tyres. The tyres and rims were fine on my other car, so that leaves the suspension? It's as if the tyres aren't quite round. And the faster you go, the bumpier it is. It's terrible! Any suggestions?
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05-04-2012, 06:01 PM | #244 |
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Crappy roads? Doesn't make much sense if the parts were working fine when you put them on. Unless doing that has transferred the breaking points to older, stock components?
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05-04-2012, 07:25 PM | #245 |
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Take the rims off and reseat them.
Happened to me once, a rim didn't sit squarely. |
05-04-2012, 07:31 PM | #246 |
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wouldn't happen so easily with hub centring rings lol
the stock wheels are hub centric for a reason!
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05-04-2012, 08:39 PM | #248 |
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The Warrego Highway is the worst highway ever, so no doubt the ride up there (to Easterfest I would imagine? ) would have been absolutely crapola!
Hopefully there isnt any big downfalls like last years events
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Is this the 1st time on coilovers? They are always stiff can feel most bumps
But if your rims aren't centered on the hub spigot you will have issues. Hubcentric bolts don't exist, not in the sense people put rims on the car. Unless you wind all of the bolts at the same time (which isn't possible without a special tool) they can off center the hub mount if it's not a proper fit and cock. Ideal fiitment is when the rim is matched to the hub, next best is having a steel/alloy spigot adaptor (not plastic) specially machined with a proper fit to hun and inside of the rim |
06-04-2012, 05:38 AM | #250 |
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+1 hub centric rings ftw.
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Wouldn't the V6 rims be hubcentric considering they are stock rims?
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06-04-2012, 12:15 PM | #252 |
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just re-read earlier posts to see that you are running stock wheels, if mating faces are clean then that only leaves a possibly damaged rim or tyre issues like delaminating, a check on a wheel balancer would show any problems.
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06-04-2012, 12:27 PM | #253 |
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If it's been sitting for a long time then the tires just could be ****ed.
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07-04-2012, 07:14 AM | #254 |
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Hey thanks guys. It's rolling on my ms touring plus ku36. No uneven wear and I pulled them off and swapped the fronts and rears around in a carpark, and centred them as best as I could, there was probably only 1/2 a mm of play to adjust and did all wheel nuts evenly. I don't get why they didn't have this issue on the I4 and the stock wheels didn't have this issue. All are pumped up to 34-36 psi
So idk what else to try while I'm here... Also it blew a radiator hose yesterday, so luckily I saw the guage rising and stopped immediately, and with a pair of pliers, 2 screwdrivers and a kitchen knife I got it off and cut the split out and reassembled. Saw about 30 minutes of music in the entire day... LOL. Off to repco to see if they have a new hose, which is highly doubtful and some coolant. How do I replace the water with coolant, is there a screw on the v6 radiator?
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07-04-2012, 07:17 AM | #255 |
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Hey marc, these coilovers are luxury compared to the springs in my hardtop! Twice as soft. Soaked up the bumps brilliantly. Just the thud thud thud from the tyres pissed me off!
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So you have KU36s on those wheels now. I keep missing all the update posts.
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07-04-2012, 10:24 AM | #257 |
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Sorry, yeah. They were a great price at option1. I think it was 124 each plus balancing.
Went to repco and autobarn and as per predictions didn't have a hose. Got some coolant and removed my overflow bottle and refilled it and added some to the main cap too...
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