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Old 02-17-2014, 02:32 AM   #99
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Originally Posted by solidONE View Post
RS3 is plenty of tire to exploit big brakes... Decreasing front end roll thus better contact patch throughout the turn will allow you to maintain more speed during a corner. Same idea, in that sense, as springs. I motion to lift the .5 pts on lowering springs. Or add points to sways and BBKs.
You're basically talking about what I'm talking about:

Once you get tires, all the other "free mods" are for you to exploit.

If you have shitty tires but great suspension, you're limited by how much you can get out of those tires.

A prime example is coilovers with stock tires. You'll overload the tires and take away some of the inherent roll + "soft tires" that was designed from the factory. Just because you're running a sticky tire like RS3 doesn't mean you can get the most out of it, but once you make that jump the points are penalized as such.

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