STX Rules and Setup Questions

[Thorpedo]

Originally Posted by autoXracer

I just recently made the move from CS/RTR setup to STX. After keeping the car 1.5 yrs in stock setup, I wanted to change thing up. I won't be going full STX prep, it's my daily and just want to keep running at local events.

First got the KW V3's, 17x9 rpf1 and 255 Rival's. I also had the Strano front bar and oem camber bolts from before.

What are your opinions on this alignment settings? No front camber plates or rear LCA yet.
Front-
Camber: -2.3
Caster: 5.6
Toe-out: 1/16 total

Rear-
Camber: -2.0
Toe-in: 1/16 total

There is a recent thread about caster and how it affects camber while cornering. I don't have time to look it up, but additional caster gained significant neg. camber while turning and allowed people to run significantly less static camber to help with braking. You might want to look into that . The whiteline ADC kit was one solution to this btw.

[autoXracer]

Thanks guys! How about the rear camber. Is 2 deg too much?

[xDanger_208x]

Originally Posted by SubiePig

Stranos 22mm front and probably leave the stock in the rear.

What would the solid equivalent be to this option??

[autoXracer]

Originally Posted by Thorpedo

There is a recent thread about caster and how it affects camber while cornering. I don't have time to look it up, but additional caster gained significant neg. camber while turning and allowed people to run significantly less static camber to help with braking. You might want to look into that . The whiteline ADC kit was one solution to this btw.

I have Ground Control front camber plates that I haven't installed yet. Would that help?

[Thorpedo]

Originally Posted by autoXracer

I have Ground Control front camber plates that I haven't installed yet. Would that help?

Yep! they give you some camber adjustment. According to the thread I mentioned you want an extra .5 degrees of caster to give you your added camber while turning, but not enough to make your steering heavy.

Link http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=48107

I looked and could not find how much caster you can get out of them, let me know if you find out as those are the plates I am interested in.

[EN2_Squirrel]

http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31424 Curious if this is legal? (Front LCA)

[ABQautoxer]

You can only use one method to adjust camber so you can't use that with camber plates. Then add to the fact it appears to have more metal content in the bushings than OEMs so that alone would make it illegal.

[EN2_Squirrel]

Originally Posted by ABQautoxer

You can only use one method to adjust camber so you can't use that with camber plates. Then add to the fact it appears to have more metal content in the bushings than OEMs so that alone would make it illegal.

Too Bad

[xwd]

What is everyone using for exhausts?

I installed a P&L catted header and a Tomei Ti frontpipe to go along with my Perrin unresonated catback and it's too loud in not such a good way. We have a new site here in Atlanta not too far from houses and I don't think it would fly.

Perrin is sending me a resonated section for the catback for free since mine is developing some cracks around the front flex joint. It will likely make things sound a little better but I don't know if it will quiet things down tremendously...

I put the stock front pipe back on for now and it quieted things to manageable level for the event this weekend.

[xDanger_208x]

My new setup will be
- JDL uel header w/Vband
- JDL overpipe w/Vband
- JDL catted frontpipe w/Vband
- Milltek resonated catback

I haven't received the header yet so I'm not sure of the sound yet but I'm positive it'll sound fantastic while being civilized.

My old setup was Tomei 60s with an equal length and it was horribly shitty. Loud, raspy and shitty.
I don't recommend that setup haha

[xwd]

Yeah mine doesn't sound that terrible, only a slight bit of rasp around 3500 RPM,it's just too loud. I am kind of amazed how much louder aftermarket headers make the car.

Yeah a header with the 60S would sound like crap.

[was385]

Originally Posted by dwx

What is everyone using for exhausts?

I installed a P&L catted header and a Tomei Ti frontpipe to go along with my Perrin unresonated catback and it's too loud in not such a good way. We have a new site here in Atlanta not too far from houses and I don't think it would fly.

Perrin is sending me a resonated section for the catback for free since mine is developing some cracks around the front flex joint. It will likely make things sound a little better but I don't know if it will quiet things down tremendously...

I put the stock front pipe back on for now and it quieted things to manageable level for the event this weekend.

This had been my fear. Even with a quieter exhaust, I just don't know that I could live with that noise level that a header would produce.

[Ranatsu]

Originally Posted by dwx

What is everyone using for exhausts?

I installed a P&L catted header and a Tomei Ti frontpipe to go along with my Perrin unresonated catback and it's too loud in not such a good way. We have a new site here in Atlanta not too far from houses and I don't think it would fly.

Perrin is sending me a resonated section for the catback for free since mine is developing some cracks around the front flex joint. It will likely make things sound a little better but I don't know if it will quiet things down tremendously...

I put the stock front pipe back on for now and it quieted things to manageable level for the event this weekend.

SCCA rules are something like 100db at 50 feet perpendicular to the vehicle. Do you think its that loud?

[piknockout]

Drove Danny's FRSarri this weekend. Not too bad on temperature, but the wind was a killer. We ended up running on Toyos, which was the optimum tire to run. Ended up top PAX and beat quite a few names, but chalking that up primarily to the right tire for the right conditions. Car seems setup pretty well so hoping for a good outing next weekend.