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$1000 upgrade to go slower! #177634
May 15, 2000 05:33 pm UTC
May 15, 2000 05:33 pm UTC

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Attended the first solo2 of the season yesterday. Just had my ground-controls (500f/300r) w/Koni shocks installed two weeks ago.

WOW, DID I EVER SUCK ! [Linked Image]

Last year i was stock (exhaust and K&N), this year i have the GC w/Koni's, and a few power mods. Still running the same G-Force R1's (245-45-16) as last year.

I didn't have to tool to lower the GC kit, i had a shop install the kit and didn't realize i couldn't move adjustment ring until at the event. The car is sitting at about stock height now, i wanted to lower it to the ground. [Linked Image]


I'm running both shocks at about the same hardness (3/4 full hard).

I know if i lower the front wheel air pressure i can reduce oversteer, how does this work with the shocks?

At the event i had a lot of understeer (at low speeds) with a bit of oversteer (at higher speeds). This over/under steer may have also been due to the wheels bouncing over the bumps, i think i had the shocks set to hard?

The only other thing i can comment on is while going though a slalom i would crank the wheel and it felt like nothing happened, than all of a sudden it was like the tires grabbed and the car would literally fling to the left or right (depending). Not very smooth, and very hard to control.

Anyone want to share there thoughts or experience with this? All comments welcome!


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Corey Kaye
1998 Eagle Talon TSi

Re: $1000 upgrade to go slower! #177635
May 17, 2000 10:27 pm UTC
May 17, 2000 10:27 pm UTC

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I have the same setup this year 500/325 and my car now feels like a gocart in a slalom.

My car is only dropped 1" and I run my Konis only half a turn.

The way your car handles I would suspect a swaybar or toe in problem. Did you shorten the bump stops.

Re: $1000 upgrade to go slower! #177636
May 17, 2000 11:37 pm UTC
May 17, 2000 11:37 pm UTC

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hummm....

Well Monday night i took the suspension apart so that i could lower the car. It's now about 1.25-1.5" lower. I put on the R1's and went up and down the street. I was able to get the ass end lose a few times but because the road is only two lanes wide with large ditches on both sides i didn't push it.

There is another event this Sunday, hopefully with the car lower and the rear shocks at full soft (all four shocks were on full hard) it'll feel better. Keeping my fingers crossed.

BTW: I had alot of toe out on the car last year, and it distroyed my street tires so i put the alignment back. How much of a difference do you think this would make in turn in? (0.25 out front, 1/16 out rear).

Re: $1000 upgrade to go slower! #177637
May 18, 2000 07:23 pm UTC
May 18, 2000 07:23 pm UTC
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Where's the event this Sunday, Corey?

Damn, I passed on the one last week since my tranny was way low on fluid, and I figured that I wouldn't have much chance against you. (I even have a set of your 245/45 R1's that I was going to use (: )

Re: $1000 upgrade to go slower! #177638
May 18, 2000 11:02 pm UTC
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Ha ha !!!
Last weekend, you could have walked the course and beat me. Of the runs that i wasn't off course, i hit so many cones my time sucked bad!

I hope to do better this Sunday.

When/where???
http://ascc.ns.ca/slalom
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Re: $1000 upgrade to go slower! #177639
May 21, 2000 03:46 pm UTC
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DAMN!!! I wish you would have emailed me the info somehow... I might have been able to make that one. (:


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