The first TCS event that I ran, I was in the D Main and was outclassed in that. Come to think of it, it could have been the E Main. The last few were in the A Main and there was a Win and a Second in the B on the way up. Just telling you that, not to brag, but to illustrate that even with a competitor who is driving talent challenged, you can achieve some decent results.

I've stayed competitive by having cars that were very, very good and were tailored to my driving "style". It is more of a careening from corner to corner, yanking the wheel over when the corner is reached, hoping that the car makes it thru, and mashing the throttle down hard on corner exit to careen to the next corner. Believe me the car has to be really good to put up with that and run decent times and disguise my lack of talent.

The best advice I can give you is to never run the same car twice. Adjust or change something every run. Then observe what that does. Too often you'll see guys do run after run with the same evil handling car and thinking they are improving their driving skills. IMO that's not productive at all. It's like hitting yourself on the head with a hammer an thinking that if you do this long enough, that it will stop hurting. Another thing guys frequently do is start making spring and oil changes as the first step in correcting handling problems.

Let me suggest another approach. Since you are running the 03, start out with 40 wt shock oil, zero rebound shocks, yellow springs from a #53333 spring set in front, blues in he rear from the same spring set, the light 03 roll bar in the back as a base setup. Start adjusting that. Run more camber in the back and see what happens. Try adjusting the ride height and see what happens when you raise the rear ride height, drop the front and vice versa. Play with the toe out----this is one of the most important adjustments you can make. After you adjust the bejesus out of this, then make a spring or shock oil change.

Did you know that decreasing toe out will make your car turn quicker???? Or that dropping the front ride height or raising the rear will do the same thing, but not as much???? A popular adage around here is that we can show you 98% of the stuff, but the 2% is up to you----that's the 0.5 sec you're looking for. This is the kind "crap" no one can show you and your experience may be different than mine----we don't drive alike and there may be differences in how we built the car.

I don't do this as much now, but will still play with some adjustments when I first get to the track. I'll run a couple of laps, make an adjustment and do a couple more, repeat until I'm happy before I'll run a full battery pack. That's another thing guys do is to run too long with a car that's not right. If it's got a push, believe me, running a full pack isn't going to fix it.

Sometimes when I write this kind of stuff, i'll worry that this will be insulting to some. Please, if you think this is BS and beneath you, don't pay it any attention. It was not meant for you, but for the guy who's been trying all sorts of set ups with frustrating results. It's meant to help, not to piss anyone off.