Mb3195

Traction rolling never makes the car faster and never puts the car on edge in the right way, having to back off if your car is about to roll will slow you down much more than having a car that doesn't roll in the first place.

Traction roll is easy to achieve - give yourself a 10mm ride height for a start - will that be quicker than a 5mm ride height?......NO!

Gaining more steering is quite easy, but normally it is not what you do with the front end, it is what you do with your back end that increases this. Examples being higher your real roll centre, stand your rear shocks up, stiffen rear roll bar - making the rear end more loose will always give more front end steering.

It also depends on where you want the steering with what setup change to make, if it is more initial steering you may stiffen the front springs, if it is coming out of the corner you may soften the front springs - it is always a compromise on setup. Another example would be gear diff oil - lighter makes the car rotate quicker, heavier gives more on power steering.

If you are running the kit setup and want more steering, the first thing I would do would be change the oil all round to 400cst and change the rear springs to match your front springs, run with more bump steer (up to 3.5mm) and also run more camber on the front than the rear.

You will then have plenty of steering!

Breitling

iTrader: (4)

How are you drifters liking it?

Dan

iTrader: (75)

I don't think anyone really buys a T4 to go drifting.... and if they had enough money, there are better options. Besides, the steering is limited to 25 degrees, hah.

locked

iTrader: (1)

Just use a stack of spacers with a smaller outer diameter on the center ballstud and you could achieve more than 25 degrees, but you don't need that for racing. It's a race car. Best one I've owned so far.

Skiddins

Sounds about right.

When I try to drive far more smoothly, my lap times just aren't as good
Some of it is very slight setup tweaks (which I haven't yet found) to give grip in certain places on the track etc.

Skiddins

bucketboy

Come on Skiddins, pull your finger out mate, Chris should be easy to beat, he is not known as a carpet specialist

Skiddins

It's not the lack of carpet speciality that causes concern.

It's the '5 times in succession British Modified Touring Car Champion' bit that suggests his repeated kicking of my arse on carpet is more than simply luck

Skiddins

P.S. Beat him the last two weeks, (we'll ignore the fact that car failure and poor driving from others more than helped)

bozzplayer

iTrader: (17)

drove the cars today in both 17.5 blinky and 17.5 boosted, they where both very easy cars to drive, only problem i was having today was that i stripped 2 gears in total between both cars, no big crashes or hits that should cause my gears to strip, but they did. Is anybody else having this issue?

Skiddins

I haven't, but check that the motor screws are not bottoming out in the motor before they tighten properly on the motor mount.

Skiddins

bucketboy

A win is a win

trigger

iTrader: (15)

Haven't experienced any spur gear issues here. Early on I installed washers behind the motor screws to secure the motor with more surface area so the screws don't gouge up the aluminum on the mount. I like the idea I can really torque the screws down and not have to worry about ruining the aluminum and worst, not tightening the motor down fully.

d.k.vmatt

Well after some not so great driving last weekend I bent my motor mount.. Didn't notice until I went racing yesterday and was wondering why the pinion wasn't straight.. It took a 0.5mm shimm to bring the motor out enough to make it anywhere near straight.

Will the t3 motor guard fit the t4? And is there a better designed motor mout available that wont bend like rubber?

Skiddins

Yes, and don't know

Skiddins

Well, my final in 13.5open from EWS today (Sorex 32JB's).

+ YouTube Video

Again, carpet setup, except;

2mm bump steer.
2000cSt rear diff
2.7 rear springs in hole 2

2.3-2.6 rear springs were just OK early on but as grip improved they started to make the car a little tail happy through chicanes.

Josh-n-ya

iTrader: (95)

You guys should give yourselfs more credit driving with stick controls. I couldnt do it at those speeds.