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Old 02-10-2012 | 11:09 PM
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justinmahn
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Originally Posted by Lenman73
I dont know if what i was told applies here or not but if Fred disagrees with me then go with his answer. I will too. Lol. But how traction rolling was described to me when running on road was this. Going into the corner the car is exerting energy on the suspension and chassis. We kept going stiffer with the set ups and sure enough we kept traction rolling. Some of the guys went to cleveland that year and were told to soften the cars. They said the energy created had no where to go when the car was set up too stiff but yet the energy had to go somewhere so over the car went. The chassis and suspension where not effectively doin their jobs. We softened the suspension and sure enough it helped. We still had to tune everything else like the roll centers and such but softening the suspension did provide immediate positive results.

I look forward to reading more from Fred. I used his method and was very pleased.
Sounds to me like you lowered the spring rate below the point where the shock oil would allow the springs to rebound. You didn't mention retuning the oils to the lighter springs. Anyone else?
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