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Originally Posted by Devil Dog Mosport
have a proper and proven shop do the corner balance and ride adjustments
Happy New Year and God Bless the Corps!
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I have been following this thread pretty closely since I'm a big proponent of being able to drive a slow car fast. I think you should start there and then move on to your other items once you get a good known neutral setting. My point is, without starting there and jumping in to have all those other things done you will never know what single item actually fixed the problem that you were originally having of the car swinging around on you. I am by no means saying to not have any of those other things listed done to your car. Truth be told, I would love to have a Guard LSD put in my car. I think what I'm getting at is that in order to truly understand the benefits of one mod and how it compliments another or to reap the whole benefit of the modifications the car must remain neutral in its set up.
Years ago, my car had this problem of the right front wheel locking up under aggressive braking especially at the end of a long straight like T1 at Summit Main or really hard braking like just before turn in at T5. I messed with my car and messed with my car. I tried rebuilding the calipers, I tried diffent pads, I thought the problem was in the tire, I spent so much time and money messing around with that stupid car on that problem. On a whim, I decided to have an alignment completed because I noticed that the rear tires wearing unevenly. I got a phone cal from the alignment shop asking me how bad the car was pulling, I told them there was no pulling at all and that I had dropped it off for an alignment as a preventative maintenance reason. This is when I learned the problem, the alignment was way out of adjustment but more importantly, the right front was sitting on about 330 lbs. and the left front was reading 680 something while the rear was coming in at just over 1100lbs on the left and 800 on the right. Ironically enough there was zero pulling and because I rotated back and forth between street/track tires they never were on long enough to wear out. I never knew the magic these cars have until after I had my car properly balanced and aligned.
This is why I originally posted that with your car's current set up, you should absolutely be handing other drivers their asses on the track. Best of luck in getting your original problem figured out and I wish you much speed in '14. Please keep everyone updated on your progress.