Ok a more in depth review which includes a morning at the track and a 300 k drive across some of the roughest windiest roads in my area. Plus some photos of the final fitments.
I did the track morning on my road tyres to get an apples to apples comparison with previous track days I've done on them (RE003's for your reference sake). The difference is night and day. Where on stock suspension the tyres would fold and the car would understeer, with the MCA's in the traction stands up for significantly longer. Not only that, when traction is exceeded the car still remains composed and continues to feed back information to the driver about what's happening. Powering on in this situation brings the car back on line. The balance is really easy to read and play with. Qld Raceway is a pretty rough track particularly into turn 1 and on the exit of turn 2. The Fiesta now remains composed and soaks up the bumps without any fuss.
Where the car blew my mind however was this morning's mountain run up Mt Nebo/Glorious, round the back of Somerset Dam to Kilcoy finally looping through the d'Agular National Park and back over Mt Mee. For anyone whose driven this circuit they'll know that it's a wide variety of surfaces and has basically everything you could reasonably throw at a suspension system. The new kit performed well beyond expectations. I used to drive some sections of this road gritting my teeth waiting for the car to hit the bump stops and send a loud shock through the whole vehicle. I can now relax as I'm seriously driving what feels like a tarmac rally car. At speed it's compliant, composed and controlled, rewarding with speeds that were previously unreachable. There were some wet sections where I was concerned about the increased camber and perceptions of a lack of traction. Concerns allayed! Even more grip and feedback than previously in the wet. My experience at the Noosa Hill climb a few weeks ago suggests that I go well in the wet (inside the top 25 while it was still wet with a high point of 3rd overall)and I honestly believe I could have placed first with this set up.
I gave my mate Daniel a drive to compare with his Bilstein coilovers in his Fiesta and he agreed that the MCA's were significantly better in all respects than the Bilsteins which felt cheap by comparison.
Start putting in your orders people if you want the best set-up soon to be available for around 2k AUD.
Redblue@mcasuspension.com.au
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