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[tacker]

mate sent you a PM on the shocks

[tacker]

Interesting. You may like to try raising the front up. I use 355 front, 345 rear. The more nose down it goes the more it understeers.

Secondly, with regard to camber there are two sorts. Static camber, ie measured at rest & dynamic camber, measured when the thing is loaded up through the corners. However much static camber you car may be running you seem to have insifficient dynamic camber. This is shown in the photos as the front wheel "tucking under" during cornering. Anyway, form what I understand, this is a suspension geometry issue tiedlinked to too low a ride height.

So it would be worth (IMHO) trying the car with an extra 15mm in the front ride height.

Anyway here is mine cornering - note the soft springs (Half your rate) but the front tyre -ve camber is still ok, even though the static is only - 2 degrees. I awill be chucking some harder springs at it today/tomorrow.

Nice car by the way Richard

[salad]

I would go much less camber than that. Around 3deg front and bit under 2deg rear.

As for dynamic camber, the rate at which it increases really should be greater if the car is lower, so I dont think that's the problem for insufficient camber.

Do you know the actual amount of static camber you have at the moment?

[tacker]

i asked for neg 5 when it was done last.

Car is going back for another alinement next week which i will watch it being done.

I have also been speaking to Bridgstone here and the motorsport guys are going to come back to me with some setting that should work for a heavier car. Lucky as these guys are a sponsor of the track where we race and had done a lot of development in the compound for this tyre.

:-) Also were none to please to hear the pilot cup sport was faster

[djr81]

i asked for neg 5 when it was done last.

Car is going back for another alinement next week which i will watch it being done.

I have also been speaking to Bridgstone here and the motorsport guys are going to come back to me with some setting that should work for a heavier car. Lucky as these guys are a sponsor of the track where we race and had done a lot of development in the compound for this tyre.

:-) Also were none to please to hear the pilot cup sport was faster

As far as I know (ok, I don't) you cannot adjust the front camber with the Cusco arms - there is no mechanism.

If you have Bridgestone blokes there then please pummell them with the questions of the day:

Hot set pressures for the RE55's on the Gt-R's & optimal operating temp for the tread face.

Edited October 24, 2007 by djr81

[tacker]

Ok have a operating temp of 60 degree for the RE 55s hard compound which is the compound used/developed for the very sandy conditions we have here.

pressure will depend on the day i would guess but we are in the low 30's here at the moment so not so far removed from sunny QLD

i will keep you in the loop.

[djr81]

Ok have a operating temp of 60 degree for the RE 55s hard compound which is the compound used/developed for the very sandy conditions we have here.

pressure will depend on the day i would guess but we are in the low 30's here at the moment so not so far removed from sunny QLD

i will keep you in the loop.

Interesting. I asked because the conditions you have over there are probably pretty similar to what we have in WA come summer. Both temperatures & the amount of sand.