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Originally Posted by ZDan
Seems like an awfully big/heavy, front-biased car to be autoXing anyway...
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Agree, but pretty good in STU.
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meh, "superiority" of A-arms and "inferiority" of struts is way way way overstated/overestimated if you ask me. I've been in dozens of cars at the track and my dearly-departed strut-suspended 240Z was honestly one of hte sweetest-handling. I did not feel much of a suspension downgrade going from S2000 to BRZ fwiw....
Etiher way, get a decent suspension setup that works and GO! Maybe the strut cars need another 0.5 degrees of static camber, so what... I used to "adjust" suspension between events but pretty quickly decided that trackish setup all the time is fine for street and track during track season. Usually -3 front -2 rear camber, near-zero toe all around.
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Mostly the dynamic negative camber gain and overall better tire usage, only from my limited experience.
Also, being able to adjust the suspension from the factory without the need of crash bolts or camber plates and running a lot of static negative camber to negate the dynamic camber loss is nice... but no, not required.
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FT86 will provide that  And my experience is that while big power cars kinda *need* super-grippy R-comps to perform at the track, less-powerful cars kinda don't. Not as much anyway. RE71Rs for sure work a LOT better on my BRZ than they did on the RX-7, which would easily overpower them. On the BRZ the RE71s are a tick or two *faster* than NT01s, whereas on the FD the NT01s were able to put the power down so much better that they were a couple of seconds faster vs. RE71R!
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Really good point and well spoken. Lighter, less powerful cars can use more of what they have, and has been my experience thus far in the z06.
Thanks!
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I did OK there vs. higher-powered machinery way back when in the 240Z (255rwhp, 2300 lb) though 
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2300 lbs? That is a pretty good PWR. In general, for current cars and general PWR, higher HP, tire for tire, is going to be faster. A handling track ViR Full is not.
Thanks for the insight. All of it is very valid and a good perspective.