alright guys, it's nearly all finalized now so i'm getting a bit more excited about it, i'm going to be sharing a large workshop unit with a couple of other fellas which will give us a nice space to work in with our own little machine shop too.. so keep your eyes peeled for some wierd and wonderful concoctions that might be springing into life soon... already got a couple of little jobs lined up to get me started too...

i'm probably going to build a few one-off special felicia's to sell off too

OMFG Teflon. No Felicia will be safe now LOL. RWD V8 & spaceframe? Muahahahahaha

sounds like fun

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Sounds cool - can't wait to see some pics!

Sounds great! good luck with the new business!

Whats the first project gonna be? Adjustable front top mounts? Hint hint!

Hmmm.... camber adjustment..... would be handy!

Sounds great! good luck with the new business!

i'm not starting a business, it's just something to do in my spare time as a hobby in the evenings and weekends..

however i will look at camber adjustable top mounts more closely, i've already made a prototype which i'm running on my pickup to cure the insane bump steer you get from wide(ish) wheels.. i'm appealing to the rally people here (darren ) does it need to be adjustable per se or just a fixed correction plate? also i think an ideal solution would be to knock up something that doesn't use the god-aweful skoda top mounts, i'm on my 3rd set of top mounts inside 2 years now and even they've started to knock now

You don't get bump steer from running wide wheels! Different wheels don't change how parallel the wishbones and TCAs are.

What you might get from wider and changed inset/offset proportion wheels is increased kickback.

ken have you ever driven a felicia mate? they handle like **** tbh, the bump steer on a lowered felicia is hideous and it's exacerbated by having wide wheels fitted too even if they have the correct offset

I'll have a look at my top mounts tomorrow Tom - I'd think for any rally/track people then they would need to be adjustable - most people I know have run different camber depending on the surface they are running on. I'm not actually certain there's much room for adjustment of it though because of the shape of the standard turret - I'll have a look at mine tomorrow afternoon and see if there would be any room for it. I've seen two different types on rally cars - the fully adjustable "sliding" type like this one:

And then the "eccentric" type:

Which are of course simpler and stronger, but have the downside of not only adjusting camber...

My current top mounts are similar to the second set, but don't have adjustment (just two bolt holes), and I'm not 100% sure the second type would be possible due to the shape of the turret....

Anyways.....

ken have you ever driven a felicia mate? they handle like **** tbh, the bump steer on a lowered felicia is hideous and it's exacerbated by having wide wheels fitted too even if they have the correct offset

I'll give you that changing the ride height can exascerbate bump steer (if the geomerty's wrong to start with) but wheel width and offset do not cause bump-steer.

Bump-steer is specifically the front hubs being rotated as they move up and down and can only be caused by poor suspension geometry ( pivot posiotions, rack positioning.

What wide wheels can cause is kick-back, which feels very similar, but is not the same thing.

TeflonTom: congrats and im looking forward to seeing some awesome stuff

Your speaking about top mount. There are many "already made" solutions. If your searching just for camber setting best is to build something like that:

In Czech republic you can buy one for 1000 CZK, its about 36 quids.

Better solution is, as djaychela mentioned, eccentric one. I thing that getting as big caster as possible is even more important than getting few degrees of camber. I cant decide what to buy first whether upgrade top mount or engine to 1.4 mpi

Price in CZ is 2000 CZK for a piece.

PS. both top mounts are for felly

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Lots of things to make there mate altho topmounts won't cure bump steer and the felly doesn't really suffer from it anyway as I was running 7 inches of travel on the front of mine with no measurable steering angle change thruout it.. but anything making the wishbone point upwards is bringing positive camber into play which does make them a bit tricky with wide wheels too lol,

Why not mod some hubs to take 2 bolt strut fittings like the gpA cars ran I'm sure if you sould make them so nova/corsa struts fitted you could sell some.

Nove top mounts fit and are readily available in solid bearing type too..

anyway I recon you need to make a mid engined 2.0 TDI felly next with 800lbf of torque

sounds like a lot of ball ache jimbo...

i'm thinking something more like this :wonder:

too heavy to handle nice tho mate and be honest any one can go fast in a straight line how about a 1300 bike engine or something lol

Fellybusa anyone? LOL

welcome to teflontom motorsport.. also known as balls-ache motors

looks a little grotty but we are going to clean it up and make it nice

2x offices, one is going to be our ickle machine shop, the other will be a lads room with a v8 coffee table and leather seats from a car

freebie sierra, bloke said we could have it, was going to weigh it in till i open up the cover and realised it is a really rare 4x4 cossie 1 of only 100 made (she will go again!!!)

this unit used to be a bathroom showroom so there is some crazy holes in the floor where the plumbing was, all boarded over then tiled and all of it completely rotten so we ripped it all out

another crazy floor hole (see the rotten plywood boards ready to be binned in the background

nearly ready for concrete, smashed up all the tiles and threw them in the hole, extremely satifying... also upon pulling out the stud wall behind found that it has compressed air lines plumbed in (and working) to the body shop next door

Keep the pics coming - going to be ace by the looks of it Good luck with the cossie as well!

Any Cossie is worth saving as long as you're not paying commercial labour rates. When you say it's one of 100 made, I take it it's a hatch? IIRC there were more like 5_000 Sapphire Cossie 4x4s built.

Looks like a phase 1 mk2 sapphire to me.

if it's the hatch then there's money to be made with enough hard work and love, but the sapphire's are relatively unwanted.

mint examples are worth as much as 15-20k

It looks like a bog standard diamond white Sapphire 4x4 Cossie, which are worth bog all even in mint nick, due to them being as common as muck! Rot like an absolute swine too everywhere.

Guess we'll be seeing some great projects being made here! Would love to see some pics of how your work space is now.

Tom, what ever happened to Project Q- Felicia?