RacingManiac
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- First Name
- Jen
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- Jul 29, 2018
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- Detroit, Michigan
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- 2016 VW GTI, 2018 ABM CTR R-17001
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I started last season running a reverse staggered setup for autoX. The car is prepped for SCCA DS setup so we are limited to stock width wheels(19x8.5 NSX wheels), and only one sway bar can be changed(in this case rear). We ran 275 front, 245 rear. Running even with the stock rear sway bar the car is very neutral, actually in most cases its actually very oversteery especially on cold tires(this probably is not in small part due to the rear brakes based yaw control thing that this car also has). It made the car quite tricky to drive and without a way to really calm it down outside of playing with rear pressure it was a challenge to deal with especially considering the limited # of runs in an autoX and having the risk to throw out first runs. We decided to shift back to running normal square setup with 265 all around and running with Karcepts rear bar and I think we really didn't lose the balance(in the best case of the staggered setup) but we gain a much wider range to adjust
I would be curious without the rear brake thing if the car can be tuned maybe differently to dial the car in to be less nervous on the narrower rear. Also if you are not limited to rule limitations from the autoX there are other knobs you can probably play with.
I would be curious without the rear brake thing if the car can be tuned maybe differently to dial the car in to be less nervous on the narrower rear. Also if you are not limited to rule limitations from the autoX there are other knobs you can probably play with.
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