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[cali yaris]

Today, 10:43 AM

uh..Jesus.... aren't you at work?

[justjesus]

ilikerice: cool !

Originally Posted by cali yaris

uh..Jesus.... aren't you at work?

Break time! I'm allowed....legally. :)

[xnamerxx]

Well finally got the shocks back from Bilstein...WOW is all I can say the difference is night and day but that might partially be from the massive difference from before to now. In either case the car is so sharp on turn in that I'm almost unsure if its going to understeer or not.

But stupid me forgot to ask the shock dyno graph so didn't get that.

[xnamerxx]

Well got a hold of the shockdyno sheet if anyone wants.

[Jason@SportsCar]

Originally Posted by xnamerxx

Well finally got the shocks back from Bilstein...WOW is all I can say the difference is night and day but that might partially be from the massive difference from before to now. In either case the car is so sharp on turn in that I'm almost unsure if its going to understeer or not.

But stupid me forgot to ask the shock dyno graph so didn't get that.

Did you have droop limiters installed so you don't have to use zip ties to hold in your rear springs anymore?

[xnamerxx]

I didn't...that would have been a good idea guess there's always next time. It doesn't seem to be as much of a problem with the 400lb springs as it was with the 350lb springs for whatever reason, but there's still about a .5" of droop travel I could stand to lose, but its okay for now.

[ilikerice]

LMAO.. check my time stamp now.. I actually woke up 30 mins ago and about to head to work. After I posted that I did look at the clock and scream "DAMMIT, stayed up too late again"

[xnamerxx]

Well since my shocks have been back at Bilstein getting revalved I've been stuck running around stock for the past month or so but went to a race this weekend with some parts I've been given and just wanted to share my experiences going back to "stock".

A few weeks back I was given a set of Megan stock replacement shocks to test out and was really surprised by how well they performed it was a quite the shock...
Well I took the rear Megan's off and replaced them with some rear Tokico HTS's I have sitting at my house just so I can get a bit more rebound damping.

Well after my runs the I can say a few things about the car stock compared to my race setup, with my stock setup the car doesn't like to turn in and has no traction on corner exit it was quite frustrating. With that being said the car performed about as well as I could hope but going over my data it was quite clear I had lost a ton of lateral traction even for the tires I was running.


I can't wait to go back to STF trim.

[ilikerice]

Haha.. yea. Its bent. I gotta retire those rims. I got one more event left of the season. So will have to get new rims and tires for christmas. I will be borrowing a set on my last event. Gonna keep these as my DD rims. They hold air and dont cause any vibrations up front. Cant affords pretty new rims and another set of rims/tires for next year

[xnamerxx]

No worries the lip doesn't seal the tire so its no big deal. I just got a set of rims and tires even though its not exactly what I want I'm sure it'll work for me right now. Sometimes you gotta run what you can vs the best thing you can.

How much did the fit beat you by?

[ilikerice]

ugh.. I am too embarrassed to even post this..
http://buccaneerregion.org/ce9-jax8-12.html

Yea, its just the lip, BUT a couple national guys said that if I go to a national even they wont let me run because there could possible be a crack in the rim. Which I understand. I just ordered some Azenis 615k tires for the red rims.. these will be my daily drivers for a while. hopefully will get enough funds to get new rims and tires by christmas

[xnamerxx]

It seems your region has amassed quite the army of Yarii :)

That's a pretty bad beat lets see if it continues with new tires though.

[ilikerice]

yeppers.. next event I will be running the 205/50 azenis 615k. its the last event of the season so I dont expect to be much competition.

funny side note: someone from Jacksonville tried to argue that I was suppose to be in Street Prepared because of my "slicks"

[xnamerxx]

Originally Posted by ilikerice

yeppers.. next event I will be running the 205/50 azenis 615k. its the last event of the season so I dont expect to be much competition.

funny side note: someone from Jacksonville tried to argue that I was suppose to be in Street Prepared because of my "slicks"

LOL should have told him to walk over to the protest booth.

We have a CS street tire class miata in my region running the 615k and he's been amazingly fast with them...keep them cold though they don't take heat well.

[xnamerxx]

Well I just wanted to update this thread with my new setup (tires+custom shocks).

I paxed 35th out of 140 in a region that has multiple jacket national champions. There was easily another 2-3 seconds left in my run, I was very dirty since I didn't quite know how to drive it.

This car is amazingly easy to drive at 8/10ths I've never driven such an easy car to drive if I didn't screw my line up so bad I could have easily paxed top 10 against some of the best drivers and cars in the country. I can't say enough good things about how easy this car is to drive on the limit even with the slick surface at Fontana. I'm loving this car so much right now its just such easy car to hold at the limit.

Fast Run

[justjesus]

^ in other words... it's easy to drive and you like it?

hehehe

congrats on your 1st place :)

[Jason@SportsCar]

Sounds like you are getting a lot of inside wheel spin.

[xnamerxx]

I was...not quite sure where the problem is stemming from but I'm going to keep the car as is for a bit until I get a bit more comfortable with it. You can see how terrible my line was so I'm going to work on that for a bit then correct the last few problems with the car.
Overall I think its about 90% where I want it but it probably needs to be a bit tighter.

Jesus...You could say that ;) I'm really loving this car right now. Thanks I think its only the 2nd time I've pulled a first so I'm super stoked right now.