Have you ever noticed a little extra eagerness for your car to turn in when you get off of the brake pedal at the end of your trail braking? Same thing can occur in situations where you'd have been at 'maintenance throttle' in a turn that decreases its radius slightly, except that it's a much...
Stock weight, whatever that was. I've never got it weighed but I haven't made any changes that affected the weight by more than a few lbs or so.
Roll steer is something that is always there, and whether it's understeerish or oversteerish depends on rear ride height as that affects both LCA...
220 lb/in
They're the BMR GT500 Handling Springs (20 lb/in stiffer than BMR's non-GT500 rear springs). I got them as part of the #SP-072 kit but they are #SP-074 for the rears alone.
They also dropped the rear of my car by about 1" vs the advertised 1.5", presumably due to the difference in...
The rear axle job is back on hold for a couple of days, so I decided to tackle one of the other little tasks.
Some time ago I'd pulled part of the interior trim and carpeting up due to the water leak. Today I started putting that stuff back in. It took a while to figure out where the...
Loose or bad bump stops is all I can come up with. I can't see lateral axle migration under the heavy load being enough to be a significant contribution to either centering the stops on the chassis-side pads or moving them off the pads completely.
Chances are you were riding on the rear bump...
The Ford Performance adjustable PHB ends measure 1.50" wide. The flanges on the supplied bushings are 0.20" (each) for a total width of 1.90". The supplied inner sleeves measure 1.85". For reference I measured about 1.88" for the OE PHB "sleeves", and the FP bar ends with bushings was a...
I should have asked this earlier - what size NT01s, and how wide are the wheels they're mounted on? This is more out of personal curiosity than any attempt to evaluate anything.
305/35-18s aren't exactly inexpensive, and 275/40-18 is a bit taller than I'd ever want to go (neither 275/35 nor...
Looks like damage from "road" debris. I'd be uneasy about that as well.
For 20-ish heat cycles - is that 20 individual sessions, 20 track days, or something else (like 20 total mornings plus afternoons)?
NT01s seem to get decent reviews regarding lifespan. They're not on Terry Fair's list...
Less rear bar???
All else held constant, I'd expect a 245/305 amount of tire stagger to understeer resolutely, as in everywhere in a corner. Including turn-in (where more front bar/less rear bar can sometimes be of advantage).
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