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Originally Posted by Driven97 View Post
Did you check / reset your toe after lowering? Could be an additional contributor. IIRC toe changes a decent amount with bump, and by extension, ride height.

Lowering the front may have given you more toe-in which makes the front end of the car feel more stable at speed.
Fair, I had a slight toe out before and I haven’t redone the toe yet. I’m resetting toe and camber this weekend as soon as I can rig up a better system than the last time I used jack stands and string (nothing wrong with that method just difficult to set and reset through multiple adjustments).

I think really what I was getting at is that, the rake makes sense - not because of weight distribution but because it essentially tilts the car slightly downward into the wind, which should, help the front end at speed. And I also get that for racecars lower is better, but at some point lowering becomes impractical on the street. So what I was wondering is if say, I kept the rake and just raised the car ever so slightly overall, would I keep the stability?
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