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Originally Posted by swade
It is truly amazing how much and in such detail some of you know about these cars. There cannot be many issues that have not been covered on this board.
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Yeah, but it boils down to some seat-of-the-pants decisions. Sure, if you have data from a track and want to do the math, you can tune the car that way.
Or, you can decide on how the car is going to be driven and ask someone who has set up dozens (like Chuck Moreland or Dave B from TRE) for some practical guidance.
You will need to know the car, the weight, the ride height, the track width, the wheel sizes and what tires. Then you need to know the type of roads or track surfaces where the car will be used.
Personally, I'd rather make the tires stay on the surface rather than over focusing on body roll, whether treating it with t-bars or sway bars. Remember what Mark Donohue supposedly said, use heavier spring rates or heavier sway bars; you don't need both.
Of course that would be relative to what you start with.