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Well its my turn to add my results to this thread. While I didn't get in the top 20 like I was hoping for I did pull a 45/138 which in San Diego isn't bad. We also had a couple of FRS show up which it was cool to see but they turned out to be much slower than I was expecting. This event was also an experiment for me, I wanted to test to see how the car performs with the front sway bar disconnected. The one thing I noticed immediately was the car had way more traction off the line, this helps because I can rev the nuts off the engine and get it moving whereas before I would flow the passenger tire away. Handling wise the car is completely different you would definitely need much stiffer springs to do this since body roll increases dramatically which also causes turn in to suffer. The car also developed a pretty bad tenancy to oversteer when lifting off and applying the brakes it was easily controllable but it kept me from keeping the car on the edge of grip. The main benefit to removing the front bar was the insane amount of grip available on corner exit, I've been so used to the inside tire spinning I wasn't trusting the car was going to have grip available when I got on it but it held on each and every time.

Here is a video of my fast time, my driving wasn't very good since I didn't have a great feel for how it was going to behave but overall I'm satisfied with the results.

http://www.sdr-scca.com/solo2/result...-7_pax-web.htm

Video of the run you can see how unsure I am with the way I'm driving. The car also seems to have lost a small bit of lateral traction which if fine since it's gained so much corner exit grip.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqAVDlZPhc8