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Originally Posted by Ron Sutton
Hey Matt,
I heard your car ran Sunday. Give us the scoop !
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Sure thing Ron!
I haven't dialed the car in at all since putting it back together. It still has a few parts combinations that I figured would need to be changed, namely with springs and bars, but I was waiting on a set of spring seat bearings for the front and didn't want to change springs out before I got those because that job is no fun at all on a DSE sub. I also wanted to drive it as-is because I wanted to get a sense for how each change effects the car's handling.
I showed up in the morning with no idea what to expect, except that I should probably have more grip than before.
What I found was that the car was pretty fast, and definitely had much less understeer than before. Mid corner speeds were greatly improved. The car was still a little bit tight, but wouldn't push terribly off line or skip the front end at all, and throttle application could easily straighten the car out without messy amounts of oversteer.
I'm still getting used to having more useable power than before, so I still wasn't driving the car at the limit. There were many times coming out of corners, or going through sweeping corners when I realized I could have been giving it much more gas, and sooner too.
The bad, as of right now is that my setup last weekend with the big tires was that transitions felt slower because turn in was less precise. The car wasn't as easy to drive through the long slalom because it didn't immediately change direction, but once it did it had all the grip in the world.
The next thing on my list of changes to make is to drop spring rate in the front. Right now there are 700lb Hypercoils in there, which I'm sure are too much. I'm going to drop down 50-100lbs and see what it does. I also have some wheels spacers to throw on the back, and then I might soften the rear bar or springs. the rear now feels like it has a lot of grip, and I want to keep as much of that as possible, so I hope dialing in the front will fix my current issues.
I'll get a few pictures of the finished car up later today because I know everyone likes pictures.
Matt