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Old 10-02-2008, 10:04 AM
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Originally Posted by bmmer701
hi korey i just want to ask with this problem also. what will be the effect of not changing the springs but laying down your shock position? (it will make the rear softer too right? or wrong) thanks
Originally Posted by Korey Harbke
You can try going down to a softer spring to create a little more rear grip. I've been testing something the last few times I was at the track though...

In high speed corners where you turn one direction, then turn the other way a number of times, it really jacks weight around the car. Sometimes our cars aren't setup to come back to center (not rolled over) quite as fast as we like. When all the weight is transferred to one side and it doesn't spring back, or "transition" quick enough, the car can get unstable and spin out a little erratically.

So to solve this, you can try going to a little thicker swaybars. I know it sounds weird, but usually when I put thicker swaybars all around on my car is made the car turn in a little harder, but actually made the car more stable throughout the corner at the same time.

So, try going softer on the rear spring and see if that helps. If it doesn't, then go back to what you had before and try thicker swaybars all around. It'll help settle the weight transfer down a bit.

Also check your tires. I notice when my tires are getting a little worn out my car will do some weird things like you describe. If you continue to have problems, post your setup and we can take a look at it again.

-Korey
As bmmer701 said , is it possible to lay down the shocks a bit more instead of changing to softer spring because i will have to get new spring , order them wait for them and it take longer . So is it possible to lay the shocks a litle more.
When you say thicker sway bar , do you mean rear only or front and rear because im already running medium sway bar front and soft sway bar rear.
Is it possible to lower roll center instead of putting thicker sway bar , for the moment im running 2mm front and 2mm rear as roll center between the upper bulkhead and inner pivotmount , should i change to 2mm front and 1.5 mm rear or is it better to keep roll center as it is and put thicker sway bar.
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