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Old 04-13-2012 | 04:56 PM
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zipperfoot
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Originally Posted by Bob Barry
you won't like the answer...

You don't tune for overshooting the jump.... you spend the extra 20 min that you would wrenching on your car practicing to down side the jump. Sounds harsh, but I would want (and have had) someone tell me to leave the effin car alone and learn to jump properly.

now if you had a problem with the rest of the track.... that's different.


One thing everyone should kinda realize by now, there really isn't much variation of setups for the 4.1. The main tuning is done with tires. It's back to the whole B3 mentality where 1 setup works everywhere and you adjust with tires. take it fwiw...... just my .02
The answer Waflet gave was what I was looking for. The reason I asked the question in the first place was because I have not had this issue with other brands and wanted to get some insight from someone with knowledge of how the car reacts to changes. No where in my post did I ask someone how to tune my car so I can drive better, LOL.

Learning how to tune a car and driving the car go hand in hand, but are two totally different disciplines altogether. Your answer to my question implies that the hours we all spend tuning our cars will not help make us better drivers. If that is the case then why don't we all buy Ready to Runs?

I race at SRS in Arizona. On any given night there may be 95 to 100 entries. Out of those, 10% of those racers are factory team drivers including Maifield. Out of those, maybe 5% will downside a jump perfectly every time. The difference is if a pro misses a jump, chances are his car is properly tuned and would not bounce if he slaps the chassis.

Take a look at some of the Cactus videos from this year. There is a triple in front that some guys were quading. The "Downside" is almost nonexistent, so chassis slap was almost guaranteed.

Most of the time I can take the criticism but in this instance you were way off base with your reply.

You mean to tell me that the next time one of the pros offers me a tuning tip, I should say no thanks I'll just go practice some more instead?

Last edited by zipperfoot; 04-13-2012 at 05:24 PM.
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