corsa-kris
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Registered: 15th Jul 07
Location: newcastle upon tyne
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I know many of you guys on here love the handling of your cars so was wanting abit advice/help I'm debating on buying a whiteline front arb for the corsa but wanted to know the pros and cons if any will I benefit or will the car just be backend happy car is on gaz coilovers with full weld in cage rear strut brace front strut brace and whiteline rear arb
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Brett
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Registered: 16th Dec 02
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Decent tyres would be the best start imo
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gez bay
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Registered: 14th Feb 08
Location: South Wales drives: Vxr
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the car will be more stable at high speed with a bigger front, will understeer more on slower, sharper bends.
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corsa-kris
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Registered: 15th Jul 07
Location: newcastle upon tyne
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Car has 888s on mate ah ryt not a fan of understeer so u think leave way it is
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IvIarkgraham
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why are you running 888's on a road car?
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corsa-kris
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It's not a road car it's for track use and I have other wheels to use for the road with ad08s on
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IvIarkgraham
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ok 
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gazza808
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quote:
Originally posted by IvIarkgraham
why are you running 888's on a road car?
Why wouldn't you?
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smcGSI16V
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Registered: 26th May 03
Location: Farnborough Drives: Thurlby 888 CDTi No.98
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quote:
Originally posted by gazza808
quote:
Originally posted by IvIarkgraham
why are you running 888's on a road car?
Why wouldn't you?
exactly.
Dont bother with a bigger front roll bar.
My old one had minimal understeer and was slightly tail happy as I had it set up softer on the front and harder on the rear.
I had
888's
whiteline rarb
Full 10 point cage
Softer front springs compared to the rear, the rears being custom 90mm lowering and 300lb(iirc), the fronts were just normal lowering springs matched to the front shocks. I didn't run coilovers.
Everything that could be polybushed was polybushed.
Standard gsi front arb.
And it went alright.
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Chris F
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Registered: 26th Dec 05
Location: Newmarket Drives: Escort Van 1.8
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Went very well i must say 
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AndyCorsaSport
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Registered: 12th Feb 06
Location: Horsforth, West Yorkshire
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Sell it and buy a 106 GTi 
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Bam4d
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Registered: 21st Jun 11
Location: Newcastle
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i think the car handles pretty good the way it is 2bf ! x
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IvIarkgraham
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Registered: 27th Mar 04
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r888's are hardly a good tyre for constant road use
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Mieran
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Registered: 28th Jan 08
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne
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Have you checked alignment on all 4 wheels? Slightly bent rear stub axel can cause alot of problems for example but its not visible by eye.
If car is back end happy this means your rear setup is too hard. You can either make rear softer by turning the stifness on the shocks down, or reduce tyre pressure etc. Or make the front harder, either by higher poundage springs or an ARB, I wouldn't get a whiteline one, in fact I would look for the skinniest one you can get like of 1.0/1.2.
[Edited on 02-11-2011 by Mieran]
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