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86drift · 08-09-2012, 07:53 AM

What a great weekend. If you get a chance to do a track day grab it with both hands. These cars make you feel like a driving god.

Now for how the weekend went. I tested OEM vs Whiteline swaybars.

On Saturday I did 6 laps on the OEM bars and set a best time of 35.95. I then went out with the Whiteline rear bar installed (on medium) and did a 35.62 within 2 laps. A good improvement. Understeer was greatly reduced and oversteer managed with the right foot. This would be a good drift setup and it wanted to drive sideways around the whole track :-)
On Sunday I did 4 laps with Whiteline front and rear bars (set on medium) and did a 35.33. Once again a good improvement. It was more balanced then with just the Whiteline rear bar. I then set both bars to hard and set a best time of 35.27. Setting the bars to hard made no noticeable difference in lap times. However it was more easily unsettled due to bumps.

As expected the thing holding the car back is the tyres. People in the know say a good set of semi-slicks are worth about 2 sec a lap. Since I was 1.8 sec behind the rx7 race car which won my class, I'm very happy with how quick it was.

08-09-2012, 07:53 AM	#5
86drift Join Date: Jun 2012 Drives: Toyota 86 GT Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 517 Thanks: 85 Thanked 263 Times in 147 Posts Mentioned: 24 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	What a great weekend. If you get a chance to do a track day grab it with both hands. These cars make you feel like a driving god. Now for how the weekend went. I tested OEM vs Whiteline swaybars. On Saturday I did 6 laps on the OEM bars and set a best time of 35.95. I then went out with the Whiteline rear bar installed (on medium) and did a 35.62 within 2 laps. A good improvement. Understeer was greatly reduced and oversteer managed with the right foot. This would be a good drift setup and it wanted to drive sideways around the whole track :-) On Sunday I did 4 laps with Whiteline front and rear bars (set on medium) and did a 35.33. Once again a good improvement. It was more balanced then with just the Whiteline rear bar. I then set both bars to hard and set a best time of 35.27. Setting the bars to hard made no noticeable difference in lap times. However it was more easily unsettled due to bumps. As expected the thing holding the car back is the tyres. People in the know say a good set of semi-slicks are worth about 2 sec a lap. Since I was 1.8 sec behind the rx7 race car which won my class, I'm very happy with how quick it was. Last edited by 86drift; 08-09-2012 at 07:10 PM. Reason: Fixed funny typo.