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Originally Posted by renfield90
On my setup at least, I'd say yes. I get a fairly neutral car if I'm on brand new street tires, but a fairly pushy car with fresh race tires. I'm still on OEM shocks, but if I went back to race tires I'd want aftermarket shocks to try and tune some of that push out.
Is anyone planning to go to Nationals this year and run CSR?
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They definitely behave differently. Still way early in my car development, though. (only the r-comps, camber and alignment at the moment - 20mm whiteline coming this week.)
I unhooked the rear bar for my first r-comp event, and that felt pretty good, did fairly well. It was a non-scca club so it's a little hard to gauge my performance. I could just barely rotate the rear under power in sweepers. And it was very stable in the slalom. Although the body roll was buick-like, and the rear of the car flopped like it was the World Cup. But putting power down was not an issue. Almost can't overwhelm the hoosiers.
Made no changes other than different venue and too cold for hoosiers, so I ran on the OEM tires and...yikes. I had a real hard time keeping the back end in the back, hard time putting the tiny amount of power down, and the low-speed understeer was infuriating. And I did poorly.
Separately, I then did the NJ Tour. I won my class (of one) but I got raw-timed on sunday by a CS RX-8. Saturday, I only avoided that by a tiny margin.
Saturday I did without the rear bar, and Sunday I did with it hooked back up. Car felt better sunday, but I performed worse relative to CS. Also, was running 36-37F and 33-34R with the bar unhooked, and was down at 33/32 with it back up, and I'm still not using all of the tire. More importantly, It was in the mid-60's that weekend, and I built up NO heat in the tires. Barely above ambient. Anyone run across that?
We'll see how much the front bar helps with getting the tires working. I suspect I'll need better shocks than OE, but that's going to be an off-season thing. Anyhow, season-long TnT continues....next stop, Ralph Wilson Stadium.