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Old 10-05-2014, 11:06 AM
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Originally Posted by Cobra #3170 View Post
You need at least 1.5 degrees more static camber in front, 1 degree more in the rear and a much faster steering gear so that you don't have to cross your hands. 10% increase in spring or bar rate would help too. I heard that Robby was hitting cones on most of his runs. How did you compare to Mike Dusold, heard he was having big under steer problems.
Bruce,

I'm currently running -1.5 up front and -1.0 in the rear now. I can't get more than about -1.25 in the rear without major modifications, but the front is totally adjustable.

I just changed the steering rack from the standard BDR 4.0 turn lock to lock manual rack to a 2.7 turn lock to lock BMW Z3 rack. My hands are crossed because this was basically a u-turn (170 degree turn).

As far as messing with the bars and/or springs I was planning on waiting until the winter when I have to pull the diff out to install the LSD.... But yes, suspension will be stiffer come the spring.

On Friday Robby was clean, Saturday once he pulled away from me and knew he was going to win the Street Machine class he went all out to try to get FTD from Josh and that is when he started coning... his quickest coned run was a 37.9XX, but Josh ran quicker clean....

Mike ended up running a 38.0XX very late on Saturday as did Terry Neuville.... I think Bret was also at 38.0XX...

Kevin...
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