Congrats on placing!!!
So I made a bunch of changes to my suspension that put it a little closer to the parts you have, including a frame mounted rear sway bar, and was experiencing the same deal at my SCCA event, the back end wanted to come around. Being the first race on an entirely new suspension I didn't want to make a lot of changes all at once, so for this race I focused only on shock compression and was able to tone it down by bringing the rear compression down and the front compression up. By the end of 9 runs I dropped 3 seconds and could keep the back end right on the edge of staying put and sliding out. There's a lot of room (and need) for further adjustment and reading your experience and results is great.
Thanks for all the details. Just to recap- For this race you finalized with-
600 lb front springs
200 lb rear springs
arm mounted rear bar (Size again?)
1.5" dia front bar
a little soft on the rear rebound and a little harder on the front compression?
How about rear compression and front rebound?
Do you think you'll stick with the arm mounted rear bar or try to step up to get the frame mounted bar to play nice?
At the track I compensated with more front shock compression. I ended with rear compression adjustment at 6 of 19 and front 11 of 19 and 10 of 19 all around on rebound. On the way home it rode pretty rough, too much for even me. I can't imagine what it would ride like if I keep adding more front compression. On 4 compression on the rear it felt very loose and like being in a boat on the waves so I think 5-6 is the max I want to drop to. I'm running 550 lb front and 200 lb rear springs. My rear bar is on the lightest setting. So (chime in here too Ron) what's the best generic way to better match front parts to the frame mounted rear bar to keep the rear half of the car following the front? Bigger front bar ? More coil spring rate? ...? I was thinking of starting with swapping to 600 lb front springs like I had before...
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Last edited by Ben@SpeedTech; 09-11-2014 at 12:38 PM.
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