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Kostamojen · 04-16-2016, 10:18 PM

Did my first Autox of the year today... Wasn't that happy with the car.

I did have one "clean" run, but it was red flagged at the end... UGG

[ame]http://youtu.be/SlyJw1uJD5w[/ame]

I had a nasty spin on my 2nd run, which as you can see was pretty nasty snap oversteer. Previously, I was able to "catch" this kind of oversteer, but it just was done after it started slidding.

[ame]http://youtu.be/0uKxm08YUb0[/ame]

You can see it start to snap at the same corner in this video too...

[ame]http://youtu.be/CkwK0g__2IQ[/ame]

Plus, I had a lot of understeer if I pushed the car too hard, it wasn't rotating as nicely as before.

I also had a bad vibration when understeering that I'm not sure about, as you can see in this vid...

[ame]http://youtu.be/kIdoRqVdO0A[/ame]

I'm probably going to try the 6" springs with helpers I just got combined with the old Group-N tophats up front and see how that works, they are 5k instead of 4k so a little stiffer but also shorter, so the helper springs might help keep it at an appropriate ride height.

I'm also contemplating going the "full on route" and upgrading the rear springs/tophats as well. But that won't be right now, maybe a month or so.

04-16-2016, 10:18 PM	#36
Kostamojen Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2011 Drives: 1993 Impreza w/ WRX Swap + FWD! Location: Roseville, CA Posts: 2,071 Thanks: 217 Thanked 952 Times in 500 Posts Mentioned: 31 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	Did my first Autox of the year today... Wasn't that happy with the car. I did have one "clean" run, but it was red flagged at the end... UGG [ame]http://youtu.be/SlyJw1uJD5w[/ame] I had a nasty spin on my 2nd run, which as you can see was pretty nasty snap oversteer. Previously, I was able to "catch" this kind of oversteer, but it just was done after it started slidding. [ame]http://youtu.be/0uKxm08YUb0[/ame] You can see it start to snap at the same corner in this video too... [ame]http://youtu.be/CkwK0g__2IQ[/ame] Plus, I had a lot of understeer if I pushed the car too hard, it wasn't rotating as nicely as before. I also had a bad vibration when understeering that I'm not sure about, as you can see in this vid... [ame]http://youtu.be/kIdoRqVdO0A[/ame] I'm probably going to try the 6" springs with helpers I just got combined with the old Group-N tophats up front and see how that works, they are 5k instead of 4k so a little stiffer but also shorter, so the helper springs might help keep it at an appropriate ride height. I'm also contemplating going the "full on route" and upgrading the rear springs/tophats as well. But that won't be right now, maybe a month or so.