Thread: 200sx(B14) front and rear wheel base.

Time out time out. Just messing areound the other day with a tape measure I said to myself the rear wheel base of my 200sx looks smaller than the front so I stick the tape measure wheel to wheel and noticed that it was definatly smaller in the rear than the front. I don't know about you guys but I think that would make the rear handle like $hit. I think of if we get our beams bent to 0 toe and slap some wheel hub spacers on the rear end to fatten it up I think we may have a handling/corner beast on our hands. When I get a chance I will get my exact measurements and post my results.

Steve foltz why do you have to be on the other side of the united states!!!!!!!! DAMN!!!!!!

Looks like Vadim beat me to this already. I am more into the handling factor though,

FYI, "wheelbase" is the measure between the centerline of the front wheels and the centerline of the rear wheels (front to back). "Track" is the measure of the wheels side-to-side.
If I think of it this weekend, I'll look at the FSM for the specs.
Setting the rear toe to zero makes the B14 a significantly different car as far as handling. A wider track in the rear might cause more understeer and negate some of the gains from the zero toe.

Are you measuring from hub to hub or tire to tire? If tire to tire then the toe can through off your measurements. Pull the wheels and measure from hub to hub so you get a more accurate measurement. I will also look in the FSM to see what it says. This is interesting.

Yes good idea you are right. I was doing a quick measurement from tire to tire.

Thankyou for the correction.