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During the time spent upgrading the suspension I learned about driving with all sorts of different handling. Too much front spring, too much rear spring, too much rear sway bar, too much front sway bar, all sorts of setups.

Finally after getting all the parts on we did a setup. Disconnected the sway bars and adjusted the shocks to full soft. Then did a skid pad test to make sure the springs were balanced. They were.

Then came doing the skid pad cranking up the sway bars until the speed the car broke loose started to drop, and making sure the front and rear broke at the same time, ie. neutral no steady state understeer or oversteer. I was surprised to find you could have too much sway bar.

The the really interesting bit. We set the rear shock rebound to control how loose the rear got under braking and the front shock rebound to control the understeer/oversteer when adding full throttle to exit a corner.
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