Anyone fitted Nitrons to T350?
Discussion
Just wondering if anyone has fitted New dampers and springs to T350.
What do you recommend?
Is it worth the money?
What is the difference in handling?
I feel my car handles pretty well, but at higher speeds feels a little light and less planted.
?NITRONS THE ANSWER?/ ?other dampers?
Thanks
What do you recommend?
Is it worth the money?
What is the difference in handling?
I feel my car handles pretty well, but at higher speeds feels a little light and less planted.
?NITRONS THE ANSWER?/ ?other dampers?
Thanks
I'm having Nitrons fitted to my Tamora next week; I'll let you know how I get on.....
www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=148027&f=7&h=0
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Fantastic!! 
Got them fitted on Friday and for those of you who said it's not worth changing to Nitrons, I'm afraid I dont agree with you - thier not cheap, but deffinately worth it. Still a few more roads to test it out on, but so far its a great improvement on the standard ride / handling, and much more stable and composed. If your not totally happy with your current set-up, I'd deffinately recommend them!
M.
Got them fitted on Friday and for those of you who said it's not worth changing to Nitrons, I'm afraid I dont agree with you - thier not cheap, but deffinately worth it. Still a few more roads to test it out on, but so far its a great improvement on the standard ride / handling, and much more stable and composed. If your not totally happy with your current set-up, I'd deffinately recommend them!
M.
Top Cats Racing - They did a propper set-up including corner weighting the car with me in it etc... Also found a couple of errors with the origonal set up which would have no doubt also been detremental to the cars handling...
I would say the set up of the car is just as important as the fitment - reccomend you get them fitted by somewhere that will take the time to set them up properly for you...
MJC
I would say the set up of the car is just as important as the fitment - reccomend you get them fitted by somewhere that will take the time to set them up properly for you...
MJC
alt said:
Interesting: I has Nitrons fitted to my Tamora last week and all I've noticed so far is it bottomming-out on fast, bumpy corners!
It's going back to TVR Power Thursday to have them adjusted so hopefully I'll be more positive after that!
Cheers.... Andrew
This seems a bit of a recurring theme with incorrectly fitted suspension kits
nubbin said:
Andrew - what's the verdict on the Nitrons?
Not too sure how to answer this as thinking about it I'm not too sure what I was expecting!
I've now done over 500 miles (300 of which were on the motorway) and I think the car's handling better! My journey to work is a 20 mile bumpy, twisty, single-lane A-road. I do think the car's handling better as I'm more confident with the accelerator in the bends. However the ride is definitely bumpier!
TVR Power originally asked to see the car again after 500 miles to see out the shocks had bedded-in so I plan to visit them again shortly.
Joospeed, interesting comments, care to elaborate?
Cheers.... Andrew
Had Nitrons fitted to my Griff by TVR Power and on three occasions the wheel arch has been scrubbing the near side rear tyre. I took the car to Nitrons yesterday and they found no problems with the dampers/springs and just changed spring settings. Will now wait and see. Great service from Guy at Nitron tho.
alt said:
Joospeed, interesting comments, care to elaborate?
Cheers.... Andrew
Yup. The std Nitron kit is designed to work at or very close to the std ride height of the car, the damper stroke is relatively long, and the springs at the rear softer than the TVR versions. Running the cars significantly lower than std is a no-no with the std Nitron kits, that's not how they're designed to work.
On the T350 and chassis variants there's a case for running the rear of the car slightly *higher* than the std TVR ride height ... certainly no lower.
Time and again I get people phoning me because they're unhappy with certain aspects of their kits fitted at other Nitron outlets .. one that regularly crops up is rear bottoming out and crashy ride .. the cars end up running on the bump stops because of the long damper body limiting the compression travel if you run them low. If you want a low ride height then you *have* to have a kit with shorter damper bodies and shoter stroke dampers... there's no other way around it.
If your supplier is fitting the std Nitron kits and sending the cars out with a ride height such that the car bottoms out of has a crashy ride from the bump stops then they're not fitting the kit correctly and you should go back and ask them to do it properly. You've spent a lot of money on the kit and the fitting is compromising it's performance.
Hope that helps.
If its any help, I've posted the geometry/ride height/ Nitron settings that are on my car (and I'm very happy with!) on this post...
[url]www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=148338&f=7&h=0[/url]
NB - These settings include the "Factory Mod" of increasing the front ride height by about 10 - 15mm to improve the steering feel..
[url]www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=148338&f=7&h=0[/url]
NB - These settings include the "Factory Mod" of increasing the front ride height by about 10 - 15mm to improve the steering feel..
alt said:
It does: thank you!
lmao the bit i find really funny tho (!) is that they call me for advice after having paid someone else to do the job badly!
Why not get someone who knows what they're doing to do it in the first place.
The person that services your engine isn't necesarily the right person to fit your suspension ...
joospeed said:
It does: thank you!
lmao the bit i find really funny tho (!) is that they call me for advice after having paid someone else to do the job badly!
Why not get someone who knows what they're doing to do it in the first place.
The person that services your engine isn't necesarily the right person to fit your suspension ...
The moral of this tale is:- If you want Nitrons fitting properly, go see Julian!
joospeed said:
nubbin said:
Joospeed, interesting comments, care to elaborate?
Cheers.... Andrew
Yup. The std Nitron kit is designed to work at or very close to the std ride height of the car, the damper stroke is relatively long, and the springs at the rear softer than the TVR versions. Running the cars significantly lower than std is a no-no with the std Nitron kits, that's not how they're designed to work.
On the T350 and chassis variants there's a case for running the rear of the car slightly *higher* than the std TVR ride height ... certainly no lower.
Time and again I get people phoning me because they're unhappy with certain aspects of their kits fitted at other Nitron outlets .. one that regularly crops up is rear bottoming out and crashy ride .. the cars end up running on the bump stops because of the long damper body limiting the compression travel if you run them low. If you want a low ride height then you *have* to have a kit with shorter damper bodies and shoter stroke dampers... there's no other way around it.
If your supplier is fitting the std Nitron kits and sending the cars out with a ride height such that the car bottoms out of has a crashy ride from the bump stops then they're not fitting the kit correctly and you should go back and ask them to do it properly. You've spent a lot of money on the kit and the fitting is compromising it's performance.
Hope that helps.
What in your opinion is a good kit with shorter damper bodies if you wanted to keep it low..?
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