Recent content by kcbrown

I'm a bit late to the party here (been quite some time since I've visited the forum), but thought I'd put my 2c in. I started with a 2014 GT Track Pack. I replaced the dampers early on, with Koni Yellows. My reason for replacing them was the ride -- you could feel reverberations through the...

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...