31-10-2012, 02:27 PM
You running on spec2s?
If so that's your answer. Honestly I cannot stress enough how gash they are as a sporty tyre.
Done a complete u-turn in my opinion of them, having driven on the turinis for a few months now and gone back to the spec2s on Monday night.
YES they are a good budget summer tyre. but the side-wall is so weak it just destroys the feel & feedback you get. Honestly, ANY confidence I had to push on in my car has just gone, because I just can't feel enough what's going on where the car meets the road. steering response is dulled, turn-in is dulled, its gone from being an A road destroyer to a more comfy cruiser with no wet grip...
Back on the subject of droplinks though;
lengthening the droplinks isn't going to change anything at all if you lengthen both. The only advantages of the adjustable droplinks is you can adjust them to take up any 'slack' dead centre. So when you turn, the arb immediately loads up, rather than slopping a couple of mm and then loading. You can also build in some pre-tension if you want to. A really pikey way of taking up the slop with a stock set of droplinks is to adjust one coilover slightly lower than the other. But obviously that'll marginally affect the geometry of the car. I doubt you'd notice that much though, but imo I doubt you'd notice that much if you got adjustable drop-links really...
Another advantage of the adjustable ones being metal is it removes any flex that you'd get with cheap plastic parts, which is possibly the next weakest point in your set-up now?
If you want to stiffen up the front end, the only things you can do are to get tyres with less sidewall flex, get stiffer springs for your coilovers, wind up your dampers, or get a thicker front arb.
What spring rates are you running at the front?
What damper settings are you running?
IMO the last thing you'll need to do is stiffen the front though...
If so that's your answer. Honestly I cannot stress enough how gash they are as a sporty tyre.
Done a complete u-turn in my opinion of them, having driven on the turinis for a few months now and gone back to the spec2s on Monday night.
YES they are a good budget summer tyre. but the side-wall is so weak it just destroys the feel & feedback you get. Honestly, ANY confidence I had to push on in my car has just gone, because I just can't feel enough what's going on where the car meets the road. steering response is dulled, turn-in is dulled, its gone from being an A road destroyer to a more comfy cruiser with no wet grip...
Back on the subject of droplinks though;
lengthening the droplinks isn't going to change anything at all if you lengthen both. The only advantages of the adjustable droplinks is you can adjust them to take up any 'slack' dead centre. So when you turn, the arb immediately loads up, rather than slopping a couple of mm and then loading. You can also build in some pre-tension if you want to. A really pikey way of taking up the slop with a stock set of droplinks is to adjust one coilover slightly lower than the other. But obviously that'll marginally affect the geometry of the car. I doubt you'd notice that much though, but imo I doubt you'd notice that much if you got adjustable drop-links really...
Another advantage of the adjustable ones being metal is it removes any flex that you'd get with cheap plastic parts, which is possibly the next weakest point in your set-up now?
If you want to stiffen up the front end, the only things you can do are to get tyres with less sidewall flex, get stiffer springs for your coilovers, wind up your dampers, or get a thicker front arb.
What spring rates are you running at the front?
What damper settings are you running?
IMO the last thing you'll need to do is stiffen the front though...
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'08 LY Renault Megane RS 230 F1 Team R26 - GONE
'56 BMW Z4 Coupe 3.0si Sport - SCHWIIIING!