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4C driving dynamics question

2.1K views 45 replies 12 participants last post by  Tempemax  
I had the track package with upgraded springs dampening and rear sway bar. For the road, fine. For the track… I recently got some coaching and when we overlayed my data over his, I had half the brake pressure early, was slower between brake and throttle, and was not trailing as well. By end of day, I was equal in brake pressure and later but not quite enough, trailing a little better, delay between brake and throttle was narrowing. Lap time drop was 7 seconds. I was hitting the titanium pucks under full braking. This led to an increase in spring rates all around and why quite a few people are running stiffer springs in the front than the rear.
Do you mean that now you have stiffer spring on the front vs the rear ones?

if yes this is what i said on my thread and Rudi Gale did not understand even if all my 4C friends that track the car are using stiffer spring on the front……..

If you did the same this is a proof that they made it correctly
 
Honestly coming back to this post I have to say one thing. Last night I was hitting up my spot in my city that has four sharp but long corners. I was going 60-65mph through them, and the car could barely handle it. It almost feels like all the weight shifts to the side and back wheel.

It definitely made me feel uneasy, but I held it and committed along with “trail braking” (a technique I use on my motorcycles to reduce speed and increase grip in the turn) I figure in the future I may need to upgrade the suspension as it’s 10 years old at this point and may need an upgrade/replacement anyway.

But I just just wanted to let you know I get what you mean. In the beginning I overlooked the strange heavy feeling in the corners because it still corners good, but ever since I read this post I’ve been thinking about how it could be better and what I can do to improve this area. If you have any advice or mod your car, please let me know what you end up doing 🙏🏽
@RICO4C “If you have any advice or mod your car, please let me know what you end up doing 🙏🏽”

probably one thousand million of thread on this forum are describing all the mods you can do on 5his car in any area…..take your time, drive carefully with that noise in the rear, solve it, read the post you are interested in, learn how the car is and improve your confidence, mods her ;)