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Old 07-05-2009, 05:21 AM
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True, I'm always after more steering (you can never have enough) but those who watched the car all said it looked like it had a lot of understeer.

I think a diff problem may have caused some of the issues. Although it felt very tight it was slipping on the track, and the tight feel might have caused the back to be loose in the slow speed turns. Wary of having the blades bottom into the t-nut, I initially only used 4 cone washers like this: ((((

But it looks like the t-nut was bottomed out on the outdrive before the diff was tight enough. I've rebuilt it now like this: )()()( and it feels a lot better, and doesn't slip.

I've now copied as much as possible of Craig's setup and I'm going to put on some softer springs too (17lb front, 15lb rear). The softer springs might only be needed on conditions like what I encountered last night.

I did move the rear shocks out on the tower and that was one change which worked. My next meeting is the Interclub at Brendale so we'll see how things go there.
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