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Old 10-05-2008, 03:39 PM
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Josh Hohnstein
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There is so much more involved with tuning your car.

Just saying run this shock oil or this spring doesn't cut it.

Setups are all about weight transfer, balance and speed of weight transfer. Every change you make to your car will effect one of those things. As soon as you start to understand what your car is doing in terms of those 3 things you will be better equiped to make the right changes.

Lets say you have 2 car with different setups on them and you make the same change to both cars (maybe springs or oil......wheelbase..... it doesn't matter) That same change could do the complete opposite thing to each car.......why......because the 2 cars already have different rates and speed of weight transfer and a different balance.

This is why when you ask a setup question you get 10 different answers. Most people associate a certain change with what it did for them the last time they tried it....instead of taking into consideration that sombody elses car might have different balance and weight transfer characteristics than their own car.

You may now return to your regularly scheduled program.

Bottom line....its hard to give setup advice on the interweb.
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