Suspension Tuning Setup Advice Needed..., went from a swinger to a plow... Options

[cha914]

Ok, did the first autox with the new suspension on sunday, and I wasn't overly impressed with the results, but since I changed almost everything, I cant realy expect to have it right the first time.

So here goes, the car had very sluggish turn-in responce, and wanted to plow through every corner. I really couldn't even get it to rotate under trail braking. Here is the setup:

Koni Yellows all around
Poly bushings all around
Fully adj rear perches w/175lb springs
22mm solid torsion bars
22mm weltmeister front bar set full soft

Ride height = 4.75 up front and ~5.25 rear (measured to the donuts)
Camber = -1.5 up front -2 rear
Toe = 1/16th toe OUT up front and 1/16th toe IN rear

With the Koni's set to full hard the car seemed to improve a little, but not much. Also, the course was on a fairly slick parking lot, and I am running 2year old pirelli tires (205/50/15s with plenty of tread, just hard).

Finally, I want this car setup mostly for track driving, so I know autox performance is going to suffer some, but it seemed pretty poor overall yesterday (it was definately more fun with the ass up in the air sliding everywhere (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif) now I want it to be fast)

Any suggestions on where to go from here, or what to try in the future (I know I need better tires).

Tony (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smash.gif)

[cha914]

Ouch...well, actually I was able to get 205 new pirellis on there about 2 years ago, and as I said before, it was before I knew anything about tires...

I do have a set of 15x6 rims, with the correct offset (not panaoports, but you gotta start somewhere)... that I will be putting some v700's on when funds permit, at which time I will go flog the car and report back with the results.

I was mostly looking for a direction to go in, and general thoughts on what was going on, I think I got that, and I thank you all for your replys...

Brad, always a pleasure to get a responce, looks like you still have some of that straight shooting Texan blood still in you (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ar15.gif)

I love this state, now if only we could convince more people to build road courses instead of roundy round tracks it would be perfect (IMG:style_emoticons/default/driving.gif)

Yours,

Tony