| Re: Coilovers My Way and Other Pics |
Subject: Re: Coilovers My Way and Other Pics by BillH on 2009/3/19 14:04:39 Quote:
The most effective thing you can do on setup is to get the car on a set of scales. Any decent raceshop in your area should be able to set the ride heights/cornerweights in an hour, so the cost wouldn't be that high. If that's not possible and you're doing the ride heights yourself, you should be setting them with a driver in the car that weighs about the same as you. You can simulste a driver with sandbags, lead, whatever, just weigh them on your bathroom scale. Your shocks are rebound adjustable, yep, start on #1 setting. Find a unused bumpy back road (I know there's plenty around, I grew up in Pa.). Find a slightly bumpy corner that you can go thru at a safe speed, like 40-45, and make a couple of runs in both directions. Then adj. the shocks up 3 -5 clicks and run the corner again. Adj. up 3-5 again. How does the car feel? What your looking for is a feeling that the car is getting skiddish. At that point you can back off one click. OA1's have an awfully fast ramp up in bump, so they can get skiddish fairly fast when you're making runs. Note that your rebound adjustment is controling the way the shocks extend, not controling the way they compress and this can help you with push or oversteer after you do your initial adjustment. This takes takes more testing but, say your rear feels a little loose, on the bumps coming out of the corner, you can add a click of rebound on the rear to keep the rear down a little longer ( takes a little more time to come up because of more rebound and should stick to the track a little better). |
