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So I am just begining to see why people always sa race cars are never done. I just ran my first autocross on track tires (Nitto NT-01s) and now my previously perfect handeling car lifts front wheels way into the air. Corner workers were saying as high as six inches!!! Now I am NO expert but this leads me to believe that there is still a considerable amount of time to be had if I can keep the wheels on or alot nearer to the ground. My question is how stiff to go in the rears. I currently have #140 Weltmeisters on the back and stock front torshens with a H&H 19mm ajustable front sway bar set one hole from soft leaving two stiffer settings (four holes total). I am thinking #175 or #200 2.5inch springs on ajustable perches. Any suggestions? Will ajusting the front bar to full stiff be enough to counteract springs this stiff? This is for a strictly autocross car that only gets driven to events and on the occassional sunny day. Also it has a six pt. cage.
Any input will be appriciated since I would only like to buy one more set of springs. Attached File(s) ![]() ![]() |
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Member ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 125 Joined: 27-April 07 From: Costa Mesa Ca. Member No.: 7,699 ![]() |
I have only run one event on them, 11 runs of a 1.1 mile course, but they were good for about 3 seconds over my yoko avs es 100s. It makes the car completely different feeling, way more fun that the 3 sec would indicate. The car feel much faster with them on but this may have to do more withe the wheels than the tires. I have them mounted on Mahles and the combination is about 5 pounds lighter a wheel than the yokos on Empi knock off eight spokes. I really like the tire but cannot comment on how it compares to the likes of a 710 though I beat a very fast CS car that was running them. Verry predictable and they make noise at the limit. Cannot comment on highway noise because I change wheels at events and have NO interior, NO sound dedening, and scraped floors with all of the seam sealer removed coupled with not the quietest exaust and LOUD carbs. When I am on the throttle whch happens to be most of the time when I am driving the car I cannot hear much other than the carbs sucking. Maby that is why I only get 11MPG. Tires cost me a little over $700 mounted and ballanced and say on the side wall Recomended For Compotition Use Only. If they wear like they do on my dads 912E I should get about 8-10 autocrosses out of a set but that is pushing it to the limit on every run and four wheel drifting out of and through many of the courners. At El Toro they set up the courses fast!!! Last Sundays was a Fourth Gear course with me hitting somwhere in the neighbor hood of 100mph. Great fun breaking from 100 to 60 in 50 feet with toe out:)
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