Originally Posted by Calinative

New to touring and picked up a new Mugen for getting back into racing. I’ve got a question for you veterans of the car and touring cars in general. Basically I’ve read and seen team drivers measuring their ride height on the side of the chassis next to the roll bars. I’ve noticed on my car that when I set the ride height using this method. The ride height measures anywhere from .4-.6mm difference from the left side to the ride side of the chassis. I’ve basically disassemble the majority of the car to check for tweak, checked bulkheads with the alignment tool, car scales basically 49f 51r and 50% cross weight. Is this normal on the mct2r?

Originally Posted by Racer X79

The previous comments about this are good places to look. But - has the matter of the countersunk bolts that hold the sway bar mounts to the chassis and their heads that stick out the bottom of the chassis from the factory been addressed? If not - you are basing your ride height off of those bolts. You can either run the countersinks in the chassis deeper by hand so the bolts do not stick out, remove the bolts so they are not in the way, or measure the ride height just before or after them.

Originally Posted by Calinative

The differences in ride height when measuring next to the sway bars was chassis flex. I tried all the suggestions and it was still off. As soon as I put in the extra screws (1&2) for the motor mount on the chassis. The ride height was the same on both sides of the chassis. For reference I’m also running the optional upper deck that is two pieces instead of the stock single upper deck. So, the car has more flex then stock.

Originally Posted by Dxb430

Hello all,

I have raced my r for the first time the weekend and the car feels great but I’m off my mtc2 pace currently so need to play around with the setup. One thing I have noticed is the rear shocks need to be threaded nearly to the end when I have no shims on top just to get to a ride height of 5.4. Is this normal? I did move over the metal part the bottom of the shock screws into so not sure if I have switched these round by accident or I have overlooked something else.

Any thoughts?

Originally Posted by gigaplex

No that's not normal

Originally Posted by Dxb430

so how far down the shock are you threaded for a 5.4 or similar ride height. I will strip it back down the weekend to make sure I have this right

Originally Posted by gigaplex

Roughly 5mm of thread exposed for 5.8 ride height at the rear. 4mm exposed for 5.4 ride height at the front.

Originally Posted by Typeone

Any updates for the MTC2R that anyone knows of? Just curious.