Will do. Thanks all for your suggestions. I'll let him know next time he's over there.

 

Good to see STis steppin' up. There is no reason the STi doesn't dominate Street Touring and Street Mod classes on a local/regional level.

The cars are a great platform with just a little tweaking.

I'm dusting off the cob webs and running the STi later this months just for laughs.

As for dialing in negative camber. The STi needs it badly. The car is what I call "camber challenged" (aka not enough camber from the facotry). Bolts are good and cheap, but plates are better and offer a wider range of adjustment.

2.2-3.0 should be a good range of camber on the street. Also, max you your caster. You'll get a snappy on center feel.

 

As for slow-in, fast-out. This concept is hard to execute because the belief is that you generally want to carry speed.

However, if you go slow-in and make a tighter radius after braking at your turn in, you are doing so while the car is slower. This allows you to increase the radius towards apex and allows a straighter exit and much more exit speed.

Type 1 corners are those that lead to long straights (top priority), Type 2 corners are those that end after a long straight (mid priority) and Combination corners are corners that lead to another corner (low priority, just get through them to setup for the next turn or straight).

Conquer those types of corners in that order of importance.

 

I prefer an unstable approach. One wheel locked up, then massive understeer...then heavy on the power

 

I'm with you, I'm usually trying to turn and accelerate at the same time. This usually ends up with massive understeer, it's not pretty but a fact of life with my current set-up, I just need to work on whole lot of technique which I am sorely lacking in. And so the education continues...

 

Diego, with your current setup, you have to drive your car like a front drive car. In other words, brake as much as possible in a straight line, initiate turn in and then once the wheels are pointed in the correct direction, apply the throttle.

When I drove your car, the overlap of any braking with turning and/or turning with throttle resulted in understeer. Be clean in each zone and the car won't understeer as much.

If this doesn't help, there's always LEFT FOOT BRAKING.

 

add lots of camber. my car drives like a rwd and turns in nice. i only get understeer when i enter the turn way too hot. also, like risk323 said, left foot braking helps.

 

Ty, hopefully before next auto-x could we look at my chamber settings... maybe that's whats causing the scrapping

Jon

 

Ty, are you running r compounds now? If so, which ones?

 

not really. i'm only on ra-1's... and they are really old (my old street set). i want to pick up a set of v710s, a6's, or the new bfg r-1's.

 

oh ok. Well, RA-1s are r compounds. That is what I used to run when I was in DS. I too, would like to get some V710s. I really should finish this season on the streets though.

 

yeah, they are. but they are a hard compound compared to the kumho's, hoosier's, and bfg's.