Doug,you`re on the right track. Keep reading and use all the info you can find to get the baseline setup in the ball park. You didn`t mention what kind of car it is but you should be able to find somewhat similar cars to backup at least some of your conclusions if you look. Then test and tune. A very large percentage of this process is subjective. One winning race car driver will often have his car set up TOTALLY different than another. It`s up to you to determine and feel out where changes and adjustments need to be made and yes good record keeping is a must. Start out with good solid geometry,select common sense spring and swaybar rates and use adj. shocks to give you some tuning range there. Don`t try to get overly radical. I generally do geometry,alignment,spring rates,swaybar rates and dampening rates in rough order. Once the first is pretty much set I go onto the next. Once geometry,alignment and spring rates are pretty well determined I use swaybar rates and dampening rates to fine tune the package. Bear in mind that`s a very rough overview of the process and that one aspect is really as important as another in the big picture. Mark SC&C
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