Autox Spring rate help, Too Stiff? Options

[nolift914]

Is my Autox 914 too stiff?
I am currently running the PO setup, the 914 was set up for club racing with front and rear coil overs. The front is at 330lbs/in which I believe is the equivalent to 25MM torsion bars and the rear is at 230. The 914 is a 4 weighting approx 1780lbs with bias ply slicks. I plan on switching to Dot-R radials. I have always thought for autox go soft on springs and big on bars. Does the paddock crowd have any suggestions for a setup. The autox sites in NYC tend to be on the rough side. I was thinking either 175 lbs/in in front and 140 lbs/in rear or 200 lbs/in front and 180 lbs/in rear.

[J P Stein]

First let me say there are MAYBE 6-8 truly fast 914 AXers in this country.
There are exactly 0 944s (or other Porsches) that can come close to them.
I know of only 2 or 3 that compete in SCCA AXs at a national level (or semi-national) at the Prepared level You can rest assured that these folks have their shit wired and will undoubtedly blow the doors of "pretenders" in head to head competition.

These guys didn't just appear from nowhere tho one of them just recently bought a well developed ride (With a pee pot full of money in it).

As far as I know the 6-8 group went thru the steps of up thru the time charts so they *know* the way. Since the OP has a balls out race car, they are both his competition and his best source of pertinent data on how to get there. That doesn't mean one doesn't need to use his head and go solely on the data supplied. If you wanna be a casual AXer, fine, the info s there.......but the guys that have it together
are not casual and aren't gonna lead you by the hand.....chances are they didn't get such help.
In my experience, PCA AXers fall into the casual vein.......all well & good but meat & potatoes for the hard core 6-8..