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Originally Posted by Track Junky
I'm going to change my perspective on this a bit. If I were looking at this from a manufactures stand point I would want to build a suspension that I could tune for autocross and road course.
After finally building this system I would test it over and over again on the same road course and post lap times, Lateral-G's, etc, etc. with a 200 treadwear tire since that is what the target audience has been using per the rules of the ASC , Optima, etc, etc.
Since no two cone courses are alike I would use a slalom test with a left hand u-turn on one end and right hand u-turn on the other.
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I like that thinking. I've run enough autocrosses now to set up a wide variety of elements. Get really familiar with the course and start throwing different set ups at the car until the stop watch finds the best set up. I may just pitch a test and tune day to my SCCA. It's really hard to learn much with 8 runs in a entire day with very little time between those runs. This is a variable that separates us from the vendors along with seat time at the Pro Touring events. All manufacturers test and find the sweet spot, why shouldn't we?