For years I've been banging on about the BX16V that ran at Bathurst in the Production car series back in the early 90s and have turned heavan and Earth over looking for a few clues as to what they did.
Following a long winded thread over here a while back, it turned out that a few of the old race cars came to the surface. These if you remember were all minus the sunroof (why weren't they all)
Here is a posting that came through tonight (this morning your time) which should be of great interest.
I've omitted one link as it's dead, but if he sorts it, I'll post it as a response.
One for you to all use as a basis for future suspension mods and much more effective than the old cutting the groove in the height selector trick.
You can make some adjustable spheres. Take an accumulator sphere; machine the inside face flat; fit a "heli coil" thread to the inside face; collect the damper washers from old spheres; using a 7mm bolt and nyloc nut fit as many/few damper washers either side of damper plate as you require; place damper assembly inside sphere; use a manufactured retaining numt to hold it all in place; fit to car and test on a race track. Also fit a schrader type valve in place gas charging plug so that the pressure can be varied.
You now have a fully configurable "spring and damper" set up. See links to pics. http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y150/m ... mplete.jpg http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y150/m ... parts1.jpg
There was a guy on the old forum who had done something similar to this he was an aircraft engineer IIRC
Good article though Alan suspect Jay might be tempted
Cheers
Luke
Please call me Luke
1989 BX 16valve White 70k almost up to scratch
I'm quite happy with the white one's 30/.5 all round which are good & hard and by far out handles my Grey one on standards.
It's a VERY good idea, but with so little known about specific setting and results thereof i wouldn't want to spend too much time trying to figure it all out. Besides, no charging rig available...lol
My setup is really stiff, and yes potholes are unforgiving but i try to avoid them whenever i can, the handling more than compensates for the possible additional suspension wear (seeing as i've bought a complete new front-end setup i won't worry about that).
A few times i've forgotten myself approaching corners in the grey one and just praying it goes round, whereas the white one just munches tight bends for tea...
From my understanding of it, when they were racing these at Bathurst, they devised a control from inside the car so the driver could adjust on the run if need be.
The video I have been trying to lay hands on, apparently shows the late Peter Brock with an in car camera looking through the screen (of his factory backed Mi16) and watching the (privateer) BX pulling away on him on the corners and Brock who by this time was sounding like a soprano due to frustration, saying "look at that thing! how are we supposed to compete with that?? just look at it, it corners flatter than a can of sardines!!" Looking forward to the day I get my hands on that so I can drop it on a DVD and send it across to you guys as I think it would be a popular piece of history of the model and well worth keeping alive.
Looking forward to the day I get my hands on that so I can drop it on a DVD and send it across to you guys as I think it would be a popular piece of history of the model and well worth keeping alive.
