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Old 11-05-2012, 04:30 PM   #365
Matt Andrews
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Originally Posted by Dave-ROR View Post
The car doesn't trail brake for shit, the stupid slip light just flashes instead and EBD tries it's best to prevent effective trail braking. Maybe running a more agressive rear pad will help, I'm only running Carbotech XP8s in the back right now. Someone else (matt? or pcasso? or CSG?) got the car to behave better for trail braking by running narrower rear tires, we do that to get rotation in the FWD race car too.

I've never had the tail fly out on this car (on the track anyways). I need to play with alignment eventually but I'll do that when I need to fine tune it.. right now it's pretty balanced and doesn't understeer or oversteer.
This is strange. While the bias isn't right with XP8's in the rear, I am able to get the car to trailbrake. I don't get any artificial stability lights or overrides. We're running identical setups. This isn't the first time I've heard of a FR-S that for some reason didn't completely defeat the saftey systems while others did...
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