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Dec 11, 2006 18:28:15 GMT
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my mk1 clio's heater never worked, window down sorted it right out, or wipe with a rag from time to time, just wait until the inside of your windscreen frezes over, thats a right hoot.
my mini will do 70 in 3rd, must be common thing to acheive
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Dec 11, 2006 18:39:46 GMT
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My Mk2 Golf Driver did 60 in 2nd at the redline. It did help having a 2 litre TSR engine in it. It was great to have the Driver gearbox not the GTI one as the gears are longer, and you could drop it into 4th at 100mph to pull away from a Mk4 1.8 turbo....
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Dec 11, 2006 18:40:46 GMT
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You sure they have an active system on them? Just had a look on here www.rx7uknet.dircon.co.uk/rx7_fc3s.htmland from what I have read there it is a passive system based on compliance of the bushes but they did have a test vehicle with aan active system. I know mid 80`s preludes had an active system. A mechanical system on the earlier ones but I think that was just a single direction of steering. Then the later electric ones had two directions one at low speed one at high. I think they amount of rear steer is normally very little in most cases as I recall the Citroen ZX`s had about 5 degree of passive rear steer built into the rear suspension and I think thats about normal. Problem with passive systems is once the bushes wear the amount of steering increases and handling becomes entertaining ;D yeah I knew that they had a passive rear wheel steer and they did test an active one too but I'm sure I read somewhere about the rear wheels steering differently at high speeds and low speeds. I may be wrong though, I havent done any hardcore research into it! edit: heres a quote from that site which confuses me a bit: "The suspension design did seem to have a handling problem though, the car seemed to resist initial turn in. This little problem was solved by looking again at the active four wheel steer mule and inventing an alteration to the P747 cornering induced steer arrangement that would steer the rears in the same direction as the fronts for stability at high speed and steer the rears in the opposite direction to the fronts at lower speeds, the amount of movement being actually quite small at just a a few degrees. The resulting "Dynamic Tracking System Suspension" and "Triaxial Floating Hub" did however induce an increased level of noise, a problem overcome by mounting the rear suspension and final drive seperately on a rear subframe which itself was mounted to the chassis with rubber bushings of various hardnesses defined by their individual purpose, so if your second gen has rather more rear suspension noise than originally like me you know where to start looking!" now do they mean the test car (with active rear wheel steer) does the whole different rear wheel steer deely or the production car? |
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Last Edit: Dec 11, 2006 18:43:59 GMT by goaferboy
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