Copying from the autocross video thread and quoting here to avoid further derailing that thread....
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Originally Posted by steverife
My frustration isn't necessarily with the tires or the pace. My frustration is that I cannot get the car settled enough to my tastes.
Ran Sunday. Scratches were the better part of a second off ES and the better part of 2 seconds off CS. I put our local hotshoe in the car and to my dismay, he was .18 slower than me (out of the 2 runs apiece where we were riding with each other and we both coned everything all day). He described the car as a lot of fun and challenging to drive. He likes a super loose car and described the car as neutral and controllable.
I'm hoping and praying the car is better at Blytheville, Lincoln, and theoretical Toledo.... because at Dixie, zMax, and Bristol, I feel like I'm either tiptoeing around or sliding around everywhere punting cones.
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The part in bold is very helpful. When I drove on the wear bars in the rain at the Ft Myers Pro, I felt like I had to choose between underdriving or overdriving and could not find a way to even get the car on the edge, much less keep it there. This was probably because the tires were effectively just water skis at that point, but the frustration was still there.
Have you driven other SSC cars and did they feel any better or worse to you? I really think there are some setup differences in play that we may not be aware of. Alignments that don't hold, binding bushings, air pressure variables etc.
I drove one SSC car that felt like the steering wheel was connected to the front tires via rubber bands and later discovered that the owners tire gauge and mine were off by a lot (5 or more PSI IIRC).
Once we set the pressures using using my gauge, it felt like my car. I'm not saying my guage/pressures were "better" but we were discussing setups that we thought were similar and getting different results...because we thought we were dealing with a 3psi difference that turned out to be more like 8psi.