I feel like I should give some feedback on some recent changes I made. So initially the car had 1200/325 springs and a 30F/small rear bar. I've left the bars as is, hoping to run a big spring/small bar combo because in my mind it just sounds better. I ran the car like this at Hallett. A month later, I tried some 950# fronts. Though I could feel what I perceived as an improvement through the wheel (tolerated more input), the car really wasn't working that well. I was still under max front width too. When I slapped wider spacers on, the car took off. At first, I thought this was because of the lowered wheel rate. Well I ran some calculations, and it was off by about 8#, so definitely not the cause. Next thought was scrub radius, but that was also squashed. Lastly, I realized that a wider car transfers less weight. So we're back to springs, but now for the right reason. Lighter springs transfer less weight. At this point, I'm still sitting on a 950/325 combo that is still prone to understeer even with the alignment tweaks I'd made (which go the car to legal max width). I ordered some 275# rear springs as I suspected I was just too far outside of what everyone else was running to make the car function. I (and others who guided me) was right. The car still had a mid corner understeer, but now I could get on the throttle and the car would rotate. Not drift, but just rotate and hook and go. It was a very progressive feeling, unlike how it's ever acted before. That was practice, after that I snagged some 900# fronts off of Bryan, threw them on, and started to feel the car out again. Relative to the field, I was the fastest I've ever been. Hell, relative to myself I was the fastest I've ever been. I beat my Z06 lap times by 5 full seconds! I still plan to grab some 250# springs to bounce back and forth with, but I feel I can concentrate a little less on the car now and a little more on me.
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Originally Posted by Pranav
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