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Originally Posted by CSG Mike
We successfully tested 10/12 springs this weekend. We're going to test 12/14 next weekend, but we're worried that it may overload our skinny street tires...
Car was very neutral after the dampers were dialed in; I can cause under/oversteer with purely steering and/or throttle input, with zero power adders.
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Obviously there is a lot of personal preference in this stuff. I'm not saying you are wrong, if that's what you like best then ok.
I am a pretty firm believer in not making the springs any stiffer than necessary. The best mechanical grip comes from having the car softer... until you run into issues with a poor contact patch, etc. Once I get where I've got a really good loaded contact patch that spreads the load across the entire tire, I don't want the car any stiffer in spring rate.
I'm sure what I find tolerable is different here in Western PA than what you might in SoCal given the climate and the roads.
To each his own. I know that I've run against cars with double my rates and sometimes more, and came out the winner. They clearly thought they needed more rate, I didn't. YMMV.