hey

[simon179]

names simon! am 18 from southport nr liverpool/preston

dont have a saxo yet but am planning to get a black or silver vtr in march/april when no claims are thru!

plans are to lower 60 rear/50 front on shortend shocks looking at the koni kit me thinks! upper and lower struts for front, rear strut,(omp) custom exhaust i will get made by pipewerx proberbly go fo the blueflame range as they are a liecensed blue flame engineers/fitters and a set of nice rims! possibly some new headlights either black angel eyes or jus smoked standards with a set of hid's! paint calipers red get some grooved drilled and vented discs with greenstuff pads ( discs black diamond if the do them) if not al shop about thats about it exterior wise!

under the bonnet was looking to get a red or blue cusom cam cover, polished covers for all the bottled ecu housin, battery cover polished inlet and manifold and manifold cover! red or blue cylicone pipes! some gas lifters for bonnet! jus basicly make it look tidy! and tasteful i hope :A:

interior not to sure on at moment but shall see when comes to that! ideas welcomed ;)

thanks for readin opinions welcomed also tips! will keep updated with a progress thread when i finally get the car!

si ;)

[VTR_Craig]

Hello and welcome

them plans sound excellent mate

[simon179]

thanks mate! am looking forward to the task tbh! am glad you approve :D jus hope others do too!

[laura_g]

hey welcome to the site

[Scattle]

Don't think you can get a rear strut for the saxo as it's torsion bar... welcome anyway lol.

[simon179]

Don't think you can get a rear strut for the saxo as it's torsion bar... welcome anyway lol.

i have seen 2 before! wether they wre cutom made or not i dont know! they had to take rear seats out tho :S! will look into it more nearer to the time!

was wondering about them torsin bars too ne 1 give me some info on them? are they better how they wrk compared to teh usual beam etc! thanks

[Scattle]

Have a look in the suspension section, or have a search..plenty of threads roaming about matey. If you go to lower sometimes it can be seized which is a bit of a bugger.

[simon179]

Have a look in the suspension section, or have a search..plenty of threads roaming about matey. If you go to lower sometimes it can be seized which is a bit of a bugger.


yeh same on corsas the bolts sieze so you cant drop the axle to get the dampers off!

cant seem to find any info on how it works compared to the usual beams and wishbones! is it a simlar set up or different? and how do they affect handlin for better or worse etc?

[steph_2345]

hey. sounds good what you plan on doing to your car. should look good. i am planning on getting a saxo in march when i begin learning to drive and then want to put a kit on when i have passed my test!!!

[simon179]

hey. sounds good what you plan on doing to your car. should look good. i am planning on getting a saxo in march when i begin learning to drive and then want to put a kit on when i have passed my test!!!

kwl kwl! ive done the bodykit thing with my corsa and its nothing but ball ache! worth the experience jus guttin if you crash!

glad u approve of what my plans are and good look with urs ;) am sure will look gd !

[Scattle]

yeh same on corsas the bolts sieze so you cant drop the axle to get the dampers off!

cant seem to find any info on how it works compared to the usual beams and wishbones! is it a simlar set up or different? and how do they affect handlin for better or worse etc?

tbh, don't know mate hahaha, only driven the saxo lol, normally a 40mm drop will give the saxo great handling.:y:

[simon179]

tbh, don't know mate hahaha, only driven the saxo lol, normally a 40mm drop will give the saxo great handling.:y:


yeh same with most cars! liek the sat on its hoop look tho! looks so much better! 40 doesnt quite drop it far enough to give it taht effect especially on 16s which is what am hopin to sit it on!

thanks anyway mate! al let u know if i eventually find out how it works lmao! :y:

[Noddy]

as the rear of the car is on torsion bars, there is no strut brace needed. what you may have seen is a roll cage with an arch to arch support beam...

welcome to the forums anyhow...

[simon179]

as the rear of the car is on torsion bars, there is no strut brace needed. what you may have seen is a roll cage with an arch to arch support beam...

welcome to the forums anyhow...

no it wasnt a cage was jus the beam goin across btween teh tops of the two struts in the boot! looked liek a scaffoldin tube with bits welded on end to hold under the struts lol looked quite good! seen it on 2 saxos! mate has a pic from one of teh meets them sax's wre at a fink! al get him to try find it show you what a mean!

if you cant buy them i wont bother cba getin one custom made

[Noddy]

There are no struts on the rear of saxos!!!! ONly on the fronts. The rear beam comprises of torsion bars and trailing arms that the wheels attach to. None of it goes up in to the upper arch cavity at all!!!!

What has been done is to brace the chassis with a tube of some sort

show us these pics - would be interested to see whats been done!

[simon179]

There are no struts on the rear of saxos!!!! ONly on the fronts. The rear beam comprises of torsion bars and trailing arms that the wheels attach to. None of it goes up in to the upper arch cavity at all!!!!

What has been done is to brace the chassis with a tube of some sort

show us these pics - would be interested to see whats been done!

ahh i see! as u can tell dnt know how the rear suspension system wrks on saxos! if u read above ;)

al get me mate to hunt em out! al show you one what it was like but on a corsa ;)


on the link
http://www.corsasport.co.uk/carimages/6575/07092007252.jpg

http://www.corsasport.co.uk/carimages/6575/07092007254.jpg

http://www.corsasport.co.uk/carimages/6575/07092007253.jpg

same sort of thing!


explain to me how the rear suspansion on a saxo works then please mate! bin lookin but no where really tells you jus shows u pics of torsion bars lol

[simon179]

heres a pic of me!

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e325/oneofakindhustler/me/558012770_l.jpg


and my old corsa! never quite finished it :(

http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e325/oneofakindhustler/car/DSC00307.jpg

more of a reason to look forward to my vtr project i have planned i think!

[Scattle]

not bad corsa buddy

[Noddy]

Looking at those pics, it looks like the corsas have struts on the back....

[simon179]

not bad corsa buddy

Looking at those pics, it looks like the corsas have struts on the back....

thx mate!

an yeh corsas do have struts the ones on the saxos wre welded in ive now been informe lol ther meant to same job as struts but mainly for show! mates gna look for pics ;)

[Noddy]

Yeah it won't do the same thing as a strut brace as theres no strut to brace! Its a show thing....

End of the day you don't need it so why spend extra money on something thats not needed and looks pap on its own!!!

If you had a full safety devices roll cage in there then you could put and extra bar between the tops of the two arches for extra support... but that would be the only time i'd expect to see it there...