Can you camber a escort mk4?

[rscombi84]

Hi guys I'm having a escort mk4 combi rs van built at the moment and after speaking to the garage it's dawned on me that I'm going to have to put my own stamp on the vehicle I've been thinking about having it stanced/cambered is this possible with just adding a set of coilovers?? Or do I need to buy or add some more parts? Any help would be great cheers.

[grumpy]

If you want it slammed to the floor its serious and involves cutting bits down and lengthing bits . You can get them pretty low just with the suspension but the tyres will be at a odd camber and wear quickly .

[Mystery Machine]

Because of the strut design on the front, the only way to get any additional camber would be to move the top of the strut inboard (adjustable top mounts) but even then, I think the amount of camber you'll get won't be *that* extreme, if noticable at all.

The rear will naturally camber the lower it goes.

I had custom front coilovers made for my car because I couldn't find anything else that would get me low enough for what I wanted. The rears are on custom struts and very low springs (which has induced a fair amount of camber at the rear)

The overall result looks something like this:







You can't really tell the amount of rear camber from these photos.

[ChasR]

Remember that a MkIV van is on a solid axle and leaf springs on the rear, making putting camber on quite interesting . The front however is as Bruce said.

[Rich606]

Dec 10, 2013 12:19:58 GMT rscombi84 said:

escort mk4 combi rs van

Combi van = 3 door estate without rear windows

[rscombi84]

Yeah glad I haven't got the leaf springs they suck, New it wasn't going to be easy as I couldn't find much on it. The van is coming to me complete so I just want to do my own thing on it, if it's a royal pane in the then so be it . Mate that estate looks the the dogs! Just what I'm looking for stance wise I've got a set of lenso fake split rims at the mo they're nice but I want to get the real deals eventually. what's it like to drive does it suffer as much as people think?
Thanks for all the help.

[rscombi84]

Where the f*** did the Fox come from??? Lol

[welshpug]

its the boards censoring of A R S E . see

[Mystery Machine]

Dec 11, 2013 16:29:55 GMT rscombi84 said:

what's it like to drive does it suffer as much as people think?
Thanks for all the help.

It drives fine, I guess you need to get the right spring rate for the coilovers (I can't actually remember what rate mine are) because this obviously makes a difference. One of the benefits, if it's too harsh or too soft, you just get some different springs and it's all sorted.

I haven't hesitated to take mine on holidays where I've covered a good 800+ miles in a week, loaded up with walking/camping and camera gear:








Low doesn't have to mean unusable.

[rscombi84]

Have been looking at air ride but with no one to speak to who's done a mk4 it's off putting. The camber looks insane in that pic what engine do you have in it?

[composimmonite]

Dec 11, 2013 15:54:43 GMT ChasR said:

Remember that a MkIV van is on a solid axle and leaf springs on the rear, making putting camber on quite interesting . The front however is as Bruce said.

Load to "gills" with concrete slabs and jack up under the centre of the beam. Camber would be wrong way though

Paul H

[ChasR]

Dec 11, 2013 16:04:36 GMT Rich606 said:

Dec 10, 2013 12:19:58 GMT rscombi84 said:

escort mk4 combi rs van

Combi van = 3 door estate without rear windows

Ah, I forgot about those. How I remember a friend's RST'CV with a 2.0 ZVH. That was quite a machine .

[rscombi84]

Dec 13, 2013 22:29:46 GMT ChasR said:

Dec 11, 2013 16:04:36 GMT Rich606 said:

Combi van = 3 door estate without rear windows

Ah, I forgot about those. How I remember a friend's RST'CV with a 2.0 ZVH. That was quite a machine .

Now they are quick but all that power in a tin can is not always a good thing me and a mate nearly died (granted because he can't drive) in July when his pug 205 rolled at 80mph on our way to a French car fest at castle combe rolled so many times I couldn't possible count but he got thrown from the car and hit a van coming the other way and broke his back in two place and took his skin of his black poor lad I on the other hand walked away with out a scratch just the luck of the draw I suppose. Would post pics but I don't know how.