Subject: Re: C4 frame flex by Steve40th on 2011/2/18 20:27:14
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SpectatorRacing wrote: I hate to be a downer but the RD parts are a waste of money...at least for actual performance.
"Feel" is different than "grip". Even further, feel on the street is WAAAY different than grip on the track. If you want your car to "feel" better, tighter, whatever, get one. In every post I've seen the owner says that their car "felt" better.
Conversely, nobody who races a C4 uses one. I think the perception of "feel" probably means it makes the steering more responsive, meaning twitchy. This does not translate to ultimate grip; slow, smooth steering inputs are required at or near the limit. Twitchy steering will get you killed.
In fact, I know the guy who owns the yellow RD C4 race car on their website, he bought it a few years back. He removed the RD parts from it...
Stiffening the front of a car makes it UNDERSTEER. The C4 already does this withought additional help. Sadly for the RD parts, loose is fast.
Save your money.
So, Remove the camber bar and all other parts they sell? The targa truss isnt a feeling thing IMHO. When the steering wheel shakes badly over bumps etc, the targa truss is keeping the car together, as if the roof is on. My steering column is all new internally, so its not the a typical C4 column wiggle. There ST Frame is really no different than most 4 point roll bars sold ont eh market. It ties the left and right together, and when I jack the car up, it doesnt flex. Whether that is a justification to keep it or not is irrelevant, as the track for NHRA/IHRA like it to be in the car when I ran. Anyways, off my soapbox
