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<blockquote data-quote="TXPD" data-source="post: 5846478" data-attributes="member: 46922"><p>1. Seat time. Get laps. Drive what you have til you have gotten close to all it has to offer. Then improve one piece at a time.</p><p></p><p>2. The #05 car has 1000lb front springs and 240-260 variable rate in the back. The rear springs are not available anymore and would appear to have been replaced by 350's. I am told by a couple guys that I respect a lot that 1200lb springs is the way to with the 350 rear. </p><p></p><p>When you start you will have no idea why your car feels loose in the corners. Are you driving it in too hard? Are you taking the wrong line? Are you turning the steering wheel before enough speed is scrubbed? Are the tires warm? Is there enough or too much air pressure in them? Are they worn out? Is the car understeering enough that when the front tires grab the rear end breaks loose?</p><p></p><p>Thats all around the rear end of your car feeling tail happy.</p><p></p><p>In the case of my car and my experience. It was a little to a lot loose depending on the situation. I learned to drive it that way. When I reached a point where we were going fast enough and wanted to go faster yet and were being held back by the condition, we made attempts to tighten the car up.</p><p></p><p>One pound of air pressure on Toyo RA1's cured the loose condition. When we changed to BF Goodrich R1's the car was WAY loose, but only before the tires warmed up. When a better driver got in the car at Road Atlanta he found that he car was pushing like a dump truck and all the tightening up we did for me had to come out. </p><p></p><p>I had to learn how to drive the car over again. I took the new driver's line and turn in points and sure enough my laps times came down and the push came up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TXPD, post: 5846478, member: 46922"] 1. Seat time. Get laps. Drive what you have til you have gotten close to all it has to offer. Then improve one piece at a time. 2. The #05 car has 1000lb front springs and 240-260 variable rate in the back. The rear springs are not available anymore and would appear to have been replaced by 350's. I am told by a couple guys that I respect a lot that 1200lb springs is the way to with the 350 rear. When you start you will have no idea why your car feels loose in the corners. Are you driving it in too hard? Are you taking the wrong line? Are you turning the steering wheel before enough speed is scrubbed? Are the tires warm? Is there enough or too much air pressure in them? Are they worn out? Is the car understeering enough that when the front tires grab the rear end breaks loose? Thats all around the rear end of your car feeling tail happy. In the case of my car and my experience. It was a little to a lot loose depending on the situation. I learned to drive it that way. When I reached a point where we were going fast enough and wanted to go faster yet and were being held back by the condition, we made attempts to tighten the car up. One pound of air pressure on Toyo RA1's cured the loose condition. When we changed to BF Goodrich R1's the car was WAY loose, but only before the tires warmed up. When a better driver got in the car at Road Atlanta he found that he car was pushing like a dump truck and all the tightening up we did for me had to come out. I had to learn how to drive the car over again. I took the new driver's line and turn in points and sure enough my laps times came down and the push came up. [/QUOTE]
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