Rear suspension

#21

swooper wrote:

[quote] FYI, the car is a little tail happy if that matters.[/quote]In my experience, a little tail happy is not bad. Over the course of a longer sprint race my fronts tend to give up grip. Tuning the car to be a little loose early usually makes it just right towards the end. If it is good at the start, it gets pushy later, making it hard to get to power early in the turns.

I rarely move my rear bar off the full soft setting unless I can’t seem to get the car to rotate otherwise (like in long sweepers like the lightbulb at NJMP Lightning where I couldn’t trail the brakes long enough without over-slowing the car).

Try to get zero toe in the rear and set the bar to full soft and see if that helps.

YMMV, IMHO, FYI, etc.

#22

Have any of you guys done a controlled re-bend of the TA’s and carrier? We installed an alignment kit and it wasn’t enough to correct. Re grinding sounds like we’re going to lose too much hanger.

#23

I presume you mean that you can’t get enough rear camber. I had that problem and we had a frame shop bend the trailing arms to get more camber. One of these days I’m going to find out if toe can be tweaked.

#24

Sorry…I meant toe. We still have 1/4" total toe out. In my head…the toe is more carrier than trailing arm. It’s a chumpcar so I really don’t car exactly what we have to bend to get it in shape.

Do you think toe would be harder to correct than camber?

#25

Toe errors will usually be bent trailing arms or improper installation of the toe adjusters.