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Originally Posted by markw
Now here's a question that is bugging me. I've got the car setup with stock springs, crash bolts and the Perrin bar, it feels great, handle great. Did you go with both swaybars and the springs, or are you playing with bars? The way I look at the rules, the TRD bars are considered stock, so you could run a combination of either original stock bars and a different bar, or either TRD bars and a different bar. What was your final setup for the weekend and how did it feel? I'm thinking these parts are not going to make the car a huge overdog in the class.
Oh, Adrien and that 8 are FAST... He took 2nd last weekend at the national tour, and consistently wins at calclub.
Mark
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I did not swap around to different parts during the weekend - the practice course only ran for 2 hours and we missed it, so we were
testing in production. We had the Hotchkis front on full stiff and the TRD rear, along with the TRD springs. On my own time I may try go back to the OEM bar but once we got air pressures sorted out to make up for my OEM shocks I was pretty happy with the car.
As far as sway bars, you can legally run any combination that includes at least one OEM or TRD bar. There's probably way too many iterations to test thoroughly and it's going to depend largely on driver preference.
As far as Adrian, he is very fast - all due credit to him for a deserving win. Give me fresh tires and a different course where the 8's gearing advantage isn't in play, I think I could win. These "new" parts don't make us into BS contenders and don't necessarily solve our shortcomings against the 8, but it does make it easier to tune the car and put up a good fight.