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Originally Posted by Sboxin
Quickurt,
Thank you for your explanation.
I respectfully agree, to disagree.
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Ed,
I raced a VW GTI, Improved Touring A, SCCA car quite a few years ago, now. Goes with the older than dirt.....
Anyway we did a then legal coil-over update by modifying the struts by removing the spring land but leaving the boss of the land as a sleeve around the strut. We then used that for the mounting base of the threaded coil-over sleeve. A way around the no coil-over rules saying you could not cut the welds off from the original spring land...
We also had strut hub failure problems with those cars and one solution was to use earlier wheels that had less offset that would reduce the lever arm action on the hub. (very same thing as warnings now on using spacers on Boxsters)
We got a set of aftermarket wheels (bargain, I thought) that had to have spacers to clear the strut. We then started having handling problems that progressed through the race, as if the tires were heating up and going away.
It turned out that the tires were rubbing the front shocks during cornering and Dick at Carrera Shocks said the McPherson heat was already about all the shocks could handle. Admittedly, this was quite a few years ago and all technology has improved.
We went back to the original wheels and it stopped (but the strut failures returned).
We finally made several sets of 1/8" spacers to figure out the clearance we had to have and cured both problems.
By the way, that's one bad-ass looking 986!!
Kurt