Ok, I got my head handed to me on a platter this weekend. Even the Prelude I usually beat got me (though on Saturday only by .1), so it was not a good weekend (besides my Mother passing away this morning).
My problem is that going through a slalom, the rear end was massively tail happy, no matter what the speed. I would enter the slalom, lifting off teh gas and applying left foot braking. That may have contributed to it, but not that huge ammount.
here is my setup:
Cusco Zero2 coilovers
spring rates I am told are 700kg fr, 600kg rr
5 is full firm setting, 1 is full soft
car lowered 1.5" to 2" (rear wheel well just covers top of tire)
MRT rear swaybar (looks like a Whiteline) - has 3 holes
fr swaybar us still the stock one
MRT swaybar links both fr and rr
I had the front shocks initially set to 1, then tried 2, 3, even 4 to try and compensate for the oversteer, but didn't seem to help. Lower settings might have helped front end to stick, but did give some lean. The rear shocks are set to 4, and the swaybar was at full firm. I tried tire pressures (225/45/17 Azenis on OZ SL 17X7 wheels) of 42 fr, 40 rr. Eventually went to 34 rr and that seemed to help a bit, but not enough.
Before my last run on Sunday, with Justin's help, we set the rear bar to meduim. But I had forgotten that I still had the front struts set to 4, and the tires were still at 42 fr, 34 rr. The back end behaved a bit better in the slalom, but I pushed too much in the turns - but then I too might have been pushing the car to try and compensate my lack of lowend power compared to the E30 //M3 I was up against. But still, I was having a ton of time wasting car control problems in every slalom. Most of my time was wasted just trying to hang on and keep it from snap spinning out on me. ANY help or suggestions are really welcome!
My problem is that going through a slalom, the rear end was massively tail happy, no matter what the speed. I would enter the slalom, lifting off teh gas and applying left foot braking. That may have contributed to it, but not that huge ammount.
here is my setup:
Cusco Zero2 coilovers
spring rates I am told are 700kg fr, 600kg rr
5 is full firm setting, 1 is full soft
car lowered 1.5" to 2" (rear wheel well just covers top of tire)
MRT rear swaybar (looks like a Whiteline) - has 3 holes
fr swaybar us still the stock one
MRT swaybar links both fr and rr
I had the front shocks initially set to 1, then tried 2, 3, even 4 to try and compensate for the oversteer, but didn't seem to help. Lower settings might have helped front end to stick, but did give some lean. The rear shocks are set to 4, and the swaybar was at full firm. I tried tire pressures (225/45/17 Azenis on OZ SL 17X7 wheels) of 42 fr, 40 rr. Eventually went to 34 rr and that seemed to help a bit, but not enough.
Before my last run on Sunday, with Justin's help, we set the rear bar to meduim. But I had forgotten that I still had the front struts set to 4, and the tires were still at 42 fr, 34 rr. The back end behaved a bit better in the slalom, but I pushed too much in the turns - but then I too might have been pushing the car to try and compensate my lack of lowend power compared to the E30 //M3 I was up against. But still, I was having a ton of time wasting car control problems in every slalom. Most of my time was wasted just trying to hang on and keep it from snap spinning out on me. ANY help or suggestions are really welcome!
