Monday, August 20, 2007

Looking serious, performance getting there and fine tuning...

No self respecting FSP car can have wheels inside the front wheel wells... you need an aggressive, wide stance to provide more front end grip, despite the suboptimal Mac-Strut geometry that leads to all sorts of camber and bump-steer curve issues, not to mention the roll couple and funky roll centre issues you can end up with when lowered.

Regardless, there are only 2 class-legal ways of getting "more grip" (sadly, sucker fans are not allowed :( )
  • Lower the CG
  • Widen the stance
Well... we've got some nice, wide and less offset (stick out further for wider stance and more grip) Compomotive wheels that achieve that purpose for the Hot Bits Echo.

I am still going to stiffen the spring rates up on the Hot Bits suspension. The valving can easily damp the higher rates and then lower the car down quite a bit more to further impove body-roll, camber control as well as transient response... but you can get an idea of what we're trying to achieve. I need to go stiffer because of the large increase in grip of the new 13" R-Compound tires, vs. the street tires that it was previously set up around.

Now with the LSD that I found residing in Guam, I can install a decent sized swaybar without fear of terminal wheelspin on corner exit and would be able to benefit from a light flywheel and really good clutch, as these are allowed under the Street Prepared prep level.
















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