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Dear all a close friend of mine would like to buy a nice Maserati Ghibli. His favorite car would be this one. He found this car advertised in Norway ,but from the add it looks like the car is based in US. We had this before, that some weird traders just steal adverts and try to market...

MIchael Thats exactly what he used, no photoshop TOM

For shure not Check out the posts, there is described that the pcis have been made with a special lense. TOM

A RCR looks close to the original , compared to most other replicas, because their bodies are most of the time derivates of KVA bodies and copied over and over and not taken from a mould of an original car. If you look into older posts on this forum you also will find the history of almost any...

John you are right, they look somehow different on the picture, but if you see a GTD in real and have a original car or a replica with an original bodywork side by side, they look even more different. There are many obvious differences. FRONTCLIP. biggest thing here is something i call the "bid...

Dear Mike Its correct what you say, but only for the uncompressed shock. as soon you mount the shock and put the cars weight on it, the spring will be compressed by the cars weight and the shock(idealy) will move in. If that happens the length of the spring is the same independend from the...

Howard, Thanks for posting this valuable input. Now it would be interessting what this setup is equaly to in terms of wheelrates. Would be great if you could take the chart from the link attaced , fill in your datas and post it. Think this would be a great help for all those GTD´s out there...

Re: Possible Suspension Arm Failure, Racing - Tornado GT40 Exactly, but this wheelrate seems to be on the soft side for me. Would be interessting to find out the wheelrates of succesfully racing GT40s. As most of midengine cars are prone to understeer ( even more if they are equipped with a...

Re: Possible Suspension Arm Failure, Racing - Tornado GT40 Dear Cliff the issue in you not fully understanding is the following. Assume the following. The lower spring perch is in a givven position; with the cars weight on it, the shock is compressed by lets say 1,5". Lets also assume the...

Congratulations for your first drive The steering rack is kind of slow on purpose, the new quicker one is quicker, but only by app 10%. THis cars react so good onto steering input that you want some slow steering ratios, especially at high speeds or for "panic" countersteering ( believe me ...

Jac Mac here we go Randy, i think CLiff is correct with that comment. Duration is defined by the cam ( no cam lift, no rocker lift) so if i´m not completly missing something the duration stays the same. I think to remember that in a HOT ROD magazine of this year , they did exactly that test...

Mhmm. i shipped a set ( 2 Tires) within germany this week for a total of 15€ Fred longsstone tyres, are selling them in UK Vintage Tyres and this is a adress in germany selling them as well http://www.avon-renndienst.de/Preisliste-Avon.pdf TOM

Re: Possible Suspension Arm Failure, Racing - Tornado GT40 to be honest, i´m suprised by this values of the mk11. Front could be ok, but the rear seems to be quite soft, especially taking in account the weight of the big block engine. The RCR 40 geometrie is very close to the one of...

to be honest, i´m suprised by this values of the mk11. Front could be ok, but the rear seems to be quite soft, especially taking in account the weight of the big block engine. The RCR 40 geometrie is very close to the one of original cars . And i ended up with a 660 lbs/inch front and 570...

Dear Cliff, Thats exactly the missinformation most people have. Some of it is true what you say. Under a certain condition some spring coils will bind up but not by adding preload only. Just think about it. As long as the shock still has some way to move out, turning up the lower spring...

Re: Possible Suspension Arm Failure, Racing - Tornado GT40 Dear Cliff, Thats exactly the missinformation most people have. Some of it is true what you say. Under a certain condition some spring coils will bind up but not by adding preload only. Just think about it. As long as the shock...

Re: Possible Suspension Arm Failure, Racing - Tornado GT40 Don´t think so. my opinion, Yes use the "soft shock stop" before the "hard" spring coil. But if your spring is to soft and therefore the car is overriding it permanently, the soft spring stop will be overloaded as well and than...

Don´t think so. my opinion, Yes use the "soft shock stop" before the "hard" spring coil. But if your spring is to soft and therefore the car is overriding it permanently, the soft spring stop will be overloaded as well and than it basically results in the same load to the other suspension...

Exactly, thats what i pointed out also. One have to find the springs for his driving conditions. Of course if you are not fighting for the last 10th , the spring rates for a givven car will be not to far of from one car to the other. Hey Randy, think this is a interessting discussion, but...

Re: Possible Suspension Arm Failure, Racing - Tornado GT40 Exactly, thats what i pointed out also. One have to find the springs for his driving conditions. Of course if you are not fighting for the last 10th , the spring rates for a givven car will be not to far of from one car to the...