my 2.0i better road holding. she's all i got.

[joe larue]

hi ..... help me, i want her[oh how] to hold my rod better.....you know what i meen. i live in the high peaks lots of bends around the peaks. the snake pass where the bikers get mangled. i need better road holding can you elp to even thje sway? ta.

[martinholmesuk]

I don't think the 2lt can be lowered the 40mm like the 1.7/turbo 480s.

try getting uprated shocks and better tyres with kick ass brakes (brembo discs and kevlar pads on mine )

[felyx]

i used to live near derby and loved going around buxton and crich on thoose bendy 1 track roads, what will really help you a lot is to goto europarts in Nottingham or stockport depending on which end of the peaks your in and spending £115 on BILSTEIN shocks allround, this will make a huge difference, please note that this is very cheap for bilsteins and for most cars cost at least twice this. also europarts sell slotted brake discs (solid only ) for £47 all price include VAT, then buy some sticky tyres off ebay and your done . NANKANG ,TOYO etc

cheers Felyx

[JohnTurbo]

i got an average speed of 72mph over the snake pass at 2am...got standard bilstiens and pi springs.

NOTE - the above is a lie, i'd never speed.

[JayTee]

I don't think the 2lt can be lowered the 40mm like the 1.7/turbo 480s.
)

yes you can I've had no problems

[SanPhire]

Of course you can lower the beast - and good luck to you <lived in Derby till I was just old enough to drive - then parents dragged me to Brum - which makes for a 35min treck up the A38 of nights to get to the /good/ roads!>

Get poly-urethene bushes for the roll bars and Bilstien shocks - hmm!
These cars where BUILT for such black top

Avon do some nice tyres to glue you to the road

[VanDerGraaf]

Sanphire i didn't know that you could get any poly bushes for the 480.
Please enlighten me!

[robkendall]

hi ..... help me, i want her[oh how] to hold my rod better......

im surprised catgroom missed this one....and murf too.....
fnar fnar

(read it again!)
lol
rob

[chris1roll]

Sanphire i didn't know that you could get any poly bushes for the 480.
Please enlighten me!

You can't.

Have checked with powerflex, and they would want £300 just to tool up, thats without actually having any made, and they will only do that if they get so many garuanteed orders (which they won't).

None of the "universal" bushes come anywhere close to the sizes we need, so the only chance is if you know of another car that uses the exact same bushes ( ) They won't check because a) its very very unlikely, and b) it would take absolutley ages and cost them money.




Replacing the 10+ year old bushes with new volvo ones will make a big difference, most of all the front wishbone bushes, They cost about £50 for all 4 from volvo, and aren't that hard to do.
Did mine the other weekend, and it tightened the handling up no end

[Ettore Bugatti]

You might try Renault 9, 11 and 19 for the bushes perhaps they are close enough.

[JohnTurbo]

They cost about £50 for all 4 from volvo, and aren't that hard to do.
Did mine the other weekend, and it tightened the handling up no end Very Happy

I did this too, easy job, and awesome results.

There was 3 on ebay going for a few quid...may have finished now, can't remember

[felyx]

BRAYDON MOTOR COMPANY in london do 4 scantech wishbone bushes for only £20 or alternatively you can buy the wishbones(whole thing with new bushes already in) from europarts for £42 each, the later being the easy way to do it.

[Matthew Brennan]

I had my 4x suspension bushes replaced for my MOT and afterwards the car handled really well and just felt loads more solid on the road. It seems to have a lot less roll now.