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Old 06-03-2019, 04:54 PM   #260
clyde
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Originally Posted by John V View Post
We had a local event yesterday and I got to test out some changes to the car. Most importantly, the issues I had in Lincoln seem resolved. the car ran great and I started playing around with the traction control.

I need to add some more rear spring to the car, it's pushy in high speed stuff probably due to the effect of the wing at speed pushing the rear of the car down and adding grip. It's not exactly loose in low speed sweeping stuff either so I think more rear spring is in order. Turn-in is also kind of lazy in that the front tire is taking too long to develop grip. That makes me think a little more compression damping in the front shocks should help. Overall the car is not bad in the handling department and it puts down power very well. My goal is to get it handling well with the current power level (around 340hp at the wheels) and then start to wick up the power to closer to 400. But I'm happy with the current power level for now.

We had a lot of people running in "non-competition" so I had to hunt around to see how I compared to everyone. Looks like I was third on index, about 0.25 off of the leader. I won my class but it's a local event with no cars in my class prepped to the same level so that doesn't mean much. I'm very happy with where I am with the car given how fresh the build is.

Next big thing to work on is dialing in the traction control. I have a ProSolo in two weeks and I need to get the traction control working before that Pro. At the ProSolo last weekend I got my butt kicked off the line trying to modulate the power delivery. Need to get the computer working on that so I can focus on other aspects of driving.

Wish I'd been able to stick around to see you run.

The traction control thing has been buzzing in my mind a bit. What the difference in putting down power from this compared to a c5 Z06. The amount of power you're talking about doesn't sound outrageous compared that and you've got more tire, although less weight, too.
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