Cougar LWB

[Guy]

Question ...

I see that many people flip the front wishbones and there is also a new 8mm longer chassis - is it a good idea to flip the rear wishbones to increase wheelbase, or does this alter the toe-in too much.

Cheers

Guy

[Adam F]

Never seen anyone flip the rears, don't think it would do you any favours..

[bigred5765]

doesnt work messes up the toe in and a load of other things

[hansie]

Hello all,

I have tried switching the rear arms and for me it worked.
I run on a med to low grip clay track and this "mod" calmed the
car down a bit.
But I'm no pro driver so for anyone else it might be the worst
thing to do......I just thought to give it a go.
Playing with set-ups is half the fun right?

Greetings

Hans

[MattW]

Just looking at my car by eye, it looks like it will shift the rear axle by quite a bit, somewhere in the region of 6mm (guess work, by eye).

This will mean that the rear driveshaft will sweep back by a fair amount. This is an "issue" that we had with early Fireblade cars (It wasn't their only issue, but that's a different story!). On the blade, we played around with different gearbox's so that the axle didn't move, and neither did the motor - all we changed was the diff output position. We found that the backward sweep was giving us a lot of power on understeer.

I'd suspect the same to be true of doing this to the SV.

[bigred5765]

it does move it around 6mm mat we tried it, it also get's rid of almost all the toe in, and yeh it sweeps the driveshafts backwards,it was rubbish

[autoxvw]

it does move it around 6mm mat we tried it, it also get's rid of almost all the toe in, and yeh it sweeps the driveshafts backwards,it was rubbish

how does it get rid of the toe in? thought the toe was controlled by the rear toe block or the optional 1 deg. rear hubs?

[bigred5765]

how does it get rid of the toe in? thought the toe was controlled by the rear toe block or the optional 1 deg. rear hubs?
take ur wheel of ur car and try it also mark angle of wishbones