20 years car development - huge leaps and small backward steps

[Lowe]

Just bought one of those Cusco adjustables.

And ouch

[watercooled]

An 86? IMO it's a very pretty car! I'd really like to give one a test drive.

[Butcher]

Just bought one of those Cusco adjustables.

And ouch

I think mine is the Cusco one. Fensport do a clone which is half the price (no Cusco tax) now. I didn't fit mine, but it looks pretty easy (you can get to it without even jacking up the car I think!

Ouch indeed. Off the road for a few weeks getting that lot fixed. New bonnet, wings, radiator, headlights, aircon, a few other sundries.

[Zak33]

mate...good effort

[Zak33]

Indeed, which is why mine has an adjustable linkage, so it can be corrected for lowering.

I crashed the front of the car into an armco at Snetterton race track.

Like so:

mate...good effort

[Butcher]

Luckily, it didn't actually hole the radiator (just broke the mountings), so I was able to drive home. Though it was a moderately wet day with a lot of filthy spray, and the washer bottle is behind the passenger side fog light, so was pierced, hence no washers. Not fun.

[Zak33]

dude....you're doing it for real...not doing it on a PS4. You're out there, showing your car the track, and in this case some armco, but hey...

in 10 years time you will NOT regret that. You will never regret it. I gaurantee that. It costs now, and it hurts the wallet,....but it's real life, and when you pile on the power of your electric sports car in a decade, in silence, with no drama.... you'll think "learned this the hard way "

[Butcher]

Not much track time recently. Trying to buy a house. On the upside, I'll have space for a driveway and garage rather than doing things in the flat car park...

[roger81]

mate...good effort

Good Toyota, I think this can easily be repaired...

[kalniel]

@kalniel: I think I encountered that article or one similar to it when I was researching (it's originally dated back in 2017), but it's patronisingly stripped of any objective data to examine for ourselves. If they took the time to make measurements, why are they keeping results mostly to themselves and expecting us to trust their subjective conclusions? /rant

Or am I just missing a link to a table or something?

I presume it's in the actual magazine which you have to buy. The website is just a scraping (by them) of bits and pieces with very little QA to check whether it makes sense. Sometimes they include the table, sometimes they don't.

[Disturbedguy]

Indeed, which is why mine has an adjustable linkage, so it can be corrected for lowering.

I crashed the front of the car into an armco at Snetterton race track.

Like so:

Only just seen this... ouch