So I'm getting everything in order to go ahead and start prepping my car for next season.
At this point I don't think I'm going to have enough money for new dampers but I also don't think there are any quality solutions at the moment so I'm ok waiting on that.
I'm just going to get an extra set of sport rims, nismos are too expensive/hard to find and not worth it for a couple pound savings per rim on a car with this much power.
For Hoosiers I'm looking at the 265/35/19 for the front and 295/30/19. Both are a bit smaller in diameter than stock but its the only options at the moment so hopefully it won't have too great of an effect on the gearing which is about perfect right now for autox. I'll crunch the numbers later to see how much top end I'm losing but like I said its the only option so it doesn't really matter right now.
Which brings us to the swaybar. This is where I need some help from yall picking the right one. My feel of the car is that it flops around like crazy in quick transitions and the steady state balance is understeer. I know alot of the behavior in transitions is better fixed with improved damping but again probably out of the picture for this year so how big of a bar would you recommend without making the steady-state balance even worse. I know in theory a big bar can help reduce understeer in camber-challenged cars such as ours but traditional knowledge also says that in general the stiffer front end will reduce front end grip, so where's the balance? Any input/experience on this would be greatly appreciated.
I want to show what the 370 is capable of, I may not be the perfect driver for the job, but I know the car can win so please help me out.
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