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Old 01-13-2004, 09:35 PM
Hal Copple Hal Copple is offline
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i don't think you necessarily sacrifice "comfort", a relative term anyway with replics, very much, if at all, in setting up your car for optimum performance.

The best thing to do, the place to start, is with the "factory" that made your car, or at least put it together, or sent you the parts and plans.

For instance, the several SPF stateside dealers have several different competition suspension packages, shocks, springs, and antirollbars, brake packages, etc, that they have honed on their cars on the track.

On my SPF, i have such a custom set up, developed by Bob and Dennis Olthoff, who have many many years of race driving and developement between them, i could never have come up with something so complementary by myself. But i have no trade-offs in street driving, my car is exceedingly comfortable for trips and such.

So no need to invent your own wheel, but find a way to talk with guys who track whatever replica you own, and use their advice as a starting point.

But a good suspension is a good suspension, both for the street and the track, at least in our cars, in which we have different expectations to start.
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