[SSLance]

Originally Posted by Ron in SoCal

That's awesome Lance! Congrats on the podium

Thanks, I was pretty stoked...

Originally Posted by Ron Sutton

That is awesome Lance! Especially in light of how stock your 3600# grocery getter is.

Did you have the air conditioner blowing & a soda in the cup holder?

Yep, along with a 24 Pak of Bud Select on ice in the trunk and some classic rock blaring on the stereo!!! Couldn't have done it without all of your help Ron. Thanks.

Originally Posted by Ben@SpeedTech

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?

Thanks for the congrats, it really is cool to do well with a G-body against all of the other muscle cars in our class.

I put the 1" solid LCA mounted bar back in place and it'll stay there for a while or at least until I get the front roll stiffness a lot firmer.

I wasn't soft on the rear rebound by any means. I don't have my notes in front of me, but I think I started out my shock tuning on Monday with the rear rebound at -2 clicks out of 24...almost totally stiff (I start at full stiff and count clicks as I soften, so -2 is 2 clicks counter clockwise from full stiff). I think they ended up at -8 and I might try going just a bit softer with them next time out as I think they are still picking up the inside rear tire under hard abrupt maneuvers.

I've always run the front rebound between -6 and -8, just little changes there make a big difference. If I need front grip for a bit longer, say for a long sweeping turn on an autocross course, 2 clicks firmer will fix that right up. 1 more click though and I'll start loosing rear grip on exit. It's a fine balance.

Front and rear low speed compression are both at -15 I believe, on the soft side of the middle, same with high speed compression. Only thing I do to drive on the street is soften the rear rebound all the way up, the rest stays the same and it rides great.

Ron will probably explain this better than me, but I think the saying goes "increasing rebound adds grip and increasing compression takes grip away" or something like that. What do I know, I'm just the driver (and owner).

As you know, the hardest part with this is replicating the track like conditions for testing and tuning. Just 4 runs during an event is NOT enough time to tune on shocks properly.