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Originally Posted by Muzzie
Anyone got a photo of the T4 with the rear shock mounted on the front. I can't figure out what this means on the set-up sheet. I'm assuming I need to cut the shock tower?
"Stu and have now mounted the rear mount on the front of the bracket, thus decreasing the distance you have space the shocks forward. It involves removing the bottom of the shock mount up to the first cross bar join and then screwing right through the plastic brace and bolting on fromm theother side. You will however need to flatten the angle on the plastic bracket, otherwise the shock tower will have a slight angle."
A picture would speak a thousand words 
Question - Does mounting the rear shock on the front make that much difference?  |
Basically swap the rear wishbones side to side so that you have shock mounting holes on the front rather than the back, leaving the hubs the same way round and then you mount the shocks on the front of the tower. Alternitively some of the guys have just drilled new holes in the wishbones and flipped the shocks to the front.
To do it the way that is described above means cutting your shock tower in half, and dremmeling the bulkhead flat on the back to get the tower to mount straight. The only real benefit is that you don't need to space out the shocks away from the tower as much to get them sitting straight and not at an angle.
If you choose the first method it makes the car a load shorter.
It does make a lot of difference to how the car reacts, it's a lot sharper on turn in, reminded me a lot of my B44 that I owned before. I have actually converted mine back recently as I found it a bit of a handful on high grip surfaces.
The one place I did really like it was at worksop. The car was much better after I moved the shocks forward as on the slippier surface it turned in soo much better and I felt it carried speed through on power corners so much better.