Rear beams and Coilovers
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Hello,

looking for some views from people that have had first hand experience with rear beams and rear coilovers!

Is it worth it etc, weight/ride

im curently tubbing my rear arches and fitting a new valance, so now would be the time to turrent the arches if im going to go down this route.

Can you fit a standard mpi fuel tank if youve turreted the arches for coilovers?

Any pics of your installs would be great

Taaaa

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Edited by Custard on 6th May, 2010.

Dave the Cake

not worth it mate, ive got it and considerd going back but my boot floor is custom and wont take a rear subframe.
could get pics if you like

13.95 1/4 mile on a 2.95 fd. Carnt be that hard to beat!

Any reason why coilovers are not worth it?

Manchester Minis

Yeah close up pics of your turrets would be great
Interesting tho..as above, reasons?

Prawn has coilovers and he hates the fronts but says the backs are fine

Dave the Cake

i've got coilovers and a beam on the back with no problems. i did change the front back to rubber cone set up though.

eden7842 - why do you say not worth it??

2012 Avon class c 2nd place 13.8 @98mph

Well I'll report back in about 4 months when I've driven my car with them.

I'm making a rear beam from scratch (hoping for an all up weight of 3kg) and have protec coilovers with 125 Lb springs. weighing in at a total of 1.8kgs each.

the main reason I've done it is to save weight.

I was going to keep the rear subby as i was doing it for handling rather than weight saving and ill be using the rear subby as mounting for some parts.

Manchester Minis

1380rich - what fuel tank are you using ? do you think a standard mpi tank would fit ?

Dave the Cake

i'm not using a standard tank and havent turreted my rear shock mounts yet so it would on mine. we had to turret my friends because the springs just touched the arch

2012 Avon class c 2nd place 13.8 @98mph

Id have got the BFH out if it was just touching, but then again, this is why my cars look like such a state!

imo with coilovers it just will take some time to get them 100% why do modern cars and race cars use them if they were pap?

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imo its not worth it unless you rele want to save weigh. a good set of shocks on a standard setup is just as good

13.95 1/4 mile on a 2.95 fd. Carnt be that hard to beat!

thanks eden, well saving weight is great, i just dont wanna sacrifice the ride to save weight. im more than happy to do the work.

is that the hudderfield beam? and pics of the turrets ?

Cheers :)

Dave the Cake

its a easy install, and yeah huddersfield, not the best but i only paid 60 for it new. the turrets are standard with offset coil overs, just had to use a hammer near the bottom as it rubbed slightly.

ive got a spare set of gaz coil overs if your interested?

thanks

13.95 1/4 mile on a 2.95 fd. Carnt be that hard to beat!

eden did you triangulate the inner L shaped brackets? I did on mine as you could flex the L shaped brackets by hand without it. Without the extra bracing I could well imagine the handling to be a bit scarey!

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1/4mile in 13.2sec @ 111 terminal on 15psi

matty have you go a pic to show me which bit do you mean?

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1/4mile in 13.2sec @ 111 terminal on 15psi

do you find the ride with 125lbs springs hard? or are they ok?

cheers
josh

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Out of interest what weight springs do people reccomend for road/trackday use ?

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Edited by minimole23 on 7th May, 2010.

thanks matty, no i havent done this but i will be now.

i dont know what 1b mine are, there standard gaz lowered and there very hard

13.95 1/4 mile on a 2.95 fd. Carnt be that hard to beat!