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If you’re willing, please post detailed instructions here, for posterity if nothing else. You never know when someone might find the information useful. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Cool, thanks. Then we must be looking at a bug. It may be that when you make some change to the system (perhaps an upgrade?), the system decides that “hey, we have these cool new features that everyone needs to know about so we’ll just reset the bulk notification preferences to their defaults...

Yeah, I just now did that at the same time I "unsubscribed" again. Guess we'll see how that works out. But look: if they aren't intentionally changing up people's preferences here, then this site has a bug, and that's that. They need to fix it, or get it fixed. And if they ARE intentionally...

Every few months, it seems the "weekly digest" setting gets set back to "subscribed" and I start receiving the "weekly digest". I keep having to set it back to "unsubscribe". How many different ways do I have to tell this site that I DO NOT WANT PERIODIC EMAIL MESSAGES FROM THIS SITE? If I...

It's human nature to be curious about how and why things work. The speculation here (on my part, at least) isn't whether the brace makes any changes to the feel of the car, but how. Put another way, I am not questioning your claim that they change the feel of the car. I'm attempting to...

Hmm...OK, that's primarily what I wasn't sure of. I suppose that even a square wave has linearly decaying frequency components, and a damped impulse (which is what I'd expect the primary shape of a bump from the suspension would look like) would (I expect) see the frequency components decaying...

I won't say you should have spent the money on seat time. Because your goal isn't to get the fastest lap times, your goal is to have a big pile of fun while driving the car at speed. If a given modification will make the car a lot more fun to drive, the money for it will be paid back every...

I agree, within limits. It's not so much that mods in the communication category are a matter of personal beliefs and opinions (that implies some amount of conscious control over the effectiveness of the mod to the driver, something that I don't believe is there), but rather that their...

Right, but it's not just that. Even if the less experienced driver were very consistent, it's precisely because they're not consistently driving the car at its limit that they'd be unable to properly assess a modification's objective improvement. You'd somehow have to know the difference...

Nailed it. I really do think we have people talking past each other here. There is one thing you mentioned that I wanted to address: That's very likely true. But there's a specific implication of it: the greater the amount of improvement seen as a result of improved driver confidence, the...

Why you felt the need to go there, I'll never know. In the context of this discussion, I had a very specific meaning in mind for "truly capable": someone who can reliably take the car to its limits and keep it there. Only with someone with that level of capability at the wheel can you properly...

Yep. I don't touch the ABS system because firstly, disabling it would light up my dash like a Christmas tree (speaking of which, it's getting to that time of the year ... so Merry Christmas to all of you in advance!), and secondly, it keeps me from flat-spotting my tires. But I do turn the...

Yep, that sort of person would choose the first option. But then, if that person had to choose the first option so that his job wasn't any fun at all anymore, it might be time for him to consider a different line of work. :D

By the way, here's a question that will clear everything up with respect to this discussion: If you had to choose between a modification that would make your car faster than everyone else's, but which also made it so that the car was absolutely no fun at all (to the point of being painful) to...

Perhaps. I actually don't know. But even if that's true, it doesn't imply that extending the performance envelope will make the car easier to drive. In fact, it might do quite the opposite (read on and you'll hopefully see what I mean). Additionally, there's the question of who finds it...

I can't speak in place of anyone else, but I don't dispute that at all. But the audience here isn't just racers. In fact, it's not even mostly racers. It's mostly people who drive at HPDEs, for which the curators emphatically state are not races. So your point is entirely valid when the...

I figured someone would come back with that one. :D But remember this: unless you're truly exceptional, there's always someone faster than you. If being the fastest is what you're all about, then you're almost always going to lose and you'll almost always be unhappy as a result, since being...

Oh, and another thing: some people here, such as (it seems) Terry Fair, are laser focused on performance, i.e. lap times. And there is certainly some validity to that approach. But it is a mistake, in my opinion, to insist that a modification is not worthwhile if it does not yield a tangible...

Well, for this, I'd say a reasonable test would be when the person's driving is such that their lap times are highly consistent and are not improving with further experience. I can't say to what degree that applies to you, but you did say this about yourself: If you're getting faster and...

I don’t think it’s so much a question of time as it is capability. The people who are most capable of assessing a modification’s true ability to improve the performance of the car are those who are able to wring almost every last bit of performance out of the car. But the problem is that those...

All this discussion actually raises a hopefully reasonable question: how do you properly test the driver confidence effects of a modification? I’ve seen numerous claims over the years that some mod or other improves lap times, when the person in question was a relatively inexperienced driver...

The RS-4 sounds a lot like the RE-11. I’m really annoyed that Bridgestone discontinued them without providing a proper replacement. As you found through your experience, the RE-71 is NOT a proper replacement. Not even close. Maybe the fact that the Hankooks are on backorder will cause...

It’s been long enough that I don’t remember those details at all. I recall that I uploaded the raw files I got from them as well, so if you can find the messages in question, you might be able to determine the answer directly.

The plots I got should still be around here somewhere. I uploaded them directly to the forum, rather than use an external image site that would have expired them. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Interestingly, the ride is quite a lot better than stock. I'm on Boss 302 springs (but switched to the Konis long before I changed the springs). The ride no longer has a harsh quality over bumps. Bilsteins might be better in this regard. Can't say. The rebound damping setting may play a...