Originally Posted by going4#1
I'm now driving on a short track for an upcoming competition and have been looking for a good clutch setup. The track has a really long straight but then after that, it's a bunch of small straight pieces linked together by a lot of chicanes.
A lot of chicanes? Do you have a pic of the track? Without knowing the actual length and the layout, I'd guess that in a lap, less than 10% of the time is spent on the straight.
There is very little space to really get the car up to speed. Right now I'm using the 17/22T with 61/56T. The car drives fine but it's a bit too mild. It can be quite hard for me to catch up to other cars. How can I get that sudden punch needed for a shorter technical track? I'm using the yellow shoe, 1.8 spring and set it to 1.2-1.3mm with a 0.5mm clutch gap.
Like Julius said, the punch needs to come from proper clutch setting. The gears you are using are fine. Hard to believe but true.
The clutch setting you gave above is missing a few parameters ... how are your flyweights set? Stock? between the pins with grub screws? Have you looked at Glenn Cauley's article on clutch settings at myTSN?
What did Julius do to your clutch at the Euros?
He took it apart and re-assembled it and then tuned the car as a whole. I am ashamed to say that until today I have not touched the clutch, I have 2 710s and 4 sets of clutches all assembled on 4 engines. The engine with Julius' clutch is in its box and I just took a quick look ... from the outside I can see (and recall) that he used yellow shoes and also another yellow shoe cut into flyweights. The rest would need the Meister himself to describe.