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Discuss past FAST events. How did it go?
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Postby Native » Tue Feb 26, 2019 12:43 pm

Philip - nice shots, as always!
Thank you.
I particularly like the one you got of Bill's wagon.
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Postby aw614 » Tue Feb 26, 2019 1:47 pm

Loren wrote:I didn't find your car twitchy at all. In fact, I almost felt like it could have used a little MORE rear bar. With the LSD, I was getting a little understeer in places like the turn-around that maybe could be helped with a little more rear bar to shift load to the front.

Or, maybe I just needed to come in hotter.

Car setup ultimately has a lot to do with driving style. What works for one driver might not work for another.
There is a commonly used NASCAR style hollow sway bar for the rear thats 32mm :snicker: Its a popular bar at the higher levels as the go to bar.

I had the same issue with the turn around in both cars and thought it was due to poor line setup and difference in grip vs brooksville. I need to watch my two runs I recorded to verify, but I was never happy with how I set up both cars going through there.
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Postby mymomswagon » Tue Feb 26, 2019 2:30 pm

Native wrote:Philip - nice shots, as always!
Thank you.
I particularly like the one you got of Bill's wagon.
yep Phillip takes great photos, especially that one of the wagon lol.
Critical damping ??? We don't need no stinking critical damping !
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Postby Loren » Tue Feb 26, 2019 2:37 pm

aw614 wrote:There is a commonly used NASCAR style hollow sway bar for the rear thats 32mm :snicker: Its a popular bar at the higher levels as the go to bar.
That's big. If you're already running 22mm... 25mm hollow would be about equivalent. So, yeah, I guess 30-32mm hollow wouldn't be too crazy. Gotta watch your swaybar mounts if you go that route!
I had the same issue with the turn around in both cars and thought it was due to poor line setup and difference in grip vs brooksville. I need to watch my two runs I recorded to verify, but I was never happy with how I set up both cars going through there.
Yeah, setup was a factor. And my car has an open diff, so it is what it is. I never got the entry quite right, just just tried to stay as tight as I could on the first half, and then let it slide wide toward the outside exit gate cone as I accelerated out.
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