I was curious to see how other folks go about collecting and qualifying their suspension setups. Basically, as I test my car, I am wanting to collect data in a meaningful and time effective way.
I'll be at Sears in a few weeks to test and I plan on leaving the same springs on the car for the entire day. But I have adjustable AR bars and PSS9's, which have 9 position rebound settings. I'm will take it easy on the car and not be setting qualifying laps, so I was thinking that during my first session I try shocks at full soft and then during the next session I try full hard. Then 3rd session set shocks at mid point. I believe I will get 5 sessions during the day. AR bars I can figure out on the fly as I'm used to that from my other cars.
Any ideas on what is a good way to go about this?
Thanks,
Bill P.
I know how to do without data acq, but it will require a serious write-up on my part.
This is the "main" ingrediant, each corner of the track is broken down into:
1. brake zone
2. turn in
3. apex
4. exit
You'll need to write down exactly what you think the car is doing for each of those 4 things for EVERY corner.
Have you heard of a download session? Where the pro driver gets out of the car after a practice session? They go straight to the transporter and poor over the data with a "Team Engineer". A tire engineer gives the team engineer tire/temps and pressures. So.. now you have 3 different forms of information coming to the team engineer. The engineer will now go over EVERY corner in the data acq while *talking* to the driver. You see them using their hands if they are standing outside of the transporters. Obviously this is difficult by yourself (which is why I use pictures to help me)
I'll see what I can do on writing something up with more detail on the "top 4"
B
I have a sheet I keep, that I am not sure where I got it from. I jot notes all over it. But since I only auto-x, and I don't make changes at the event unless things are going way bad. It is pretty easy for me to keep track. It allows for alignment settings, temps, and pressures. I have added stuff, like alignment settings and swaybar steps, springrates etc.... I have it in a three ring binder with a track map etc... I am odd anal this way, yet I can't keep a desk clean to save my soul.
I could scan it and send to yah if you want it.
BTW, nice Data system. I am looking for a photographer for next year, so I can see what the car is doing, or rent a lot and put a camera out there and do my own video shots in front of it. But I love events in which the pros show up and shot pictures, it is real easy to see what the car is doing at a given time.
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