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LEGENDS => Setup and Handling => Topic started by: BlueZo6NVA on March 09, 2015, 09:08:06 pm

Title: Best road course spring rate setup
Post by: BlueZo6NVA on March 09, 2015, 09:08:06 pm: Hi Guys,
I'm looking into getting my car setup for the season. It was an oval car that I'm setting up for road course duty. Does anyone have any info on a good spring rate setup that I could use for turning right and left and hitting the occasional curbing? Thanks!
Title: Re: Best road course spring rate setup
Post by: justfreaky on March 09, 2015, 10:43:39 pm: If you are in the 200lb range I would start with 175-185 (F) and 135-150(R). The front needs to just be stiff enough to keep from bottoming out the shocks and ball joints.

The rear needs to be really soft to plant the rear of the car to drive off from cone to cone.

This is info I got from Randy when I first ask the same question. Run even spring rates on both sides (as we run left and right turns).

Hope that helps you some.

Steve
Title: Re: Best road course spring rate setup
Post by: IraceLegends77 on March 10, 2015, 06:19:01 am: How big is the track? We ran a 2+ mile track last year and had a lot bigger springs than what Steve has suggested. I could see running softer though if it was a auto cross.
Title: Re: Best road course spring rate setup
Post by: BlueZo6NVA on March 10, 2015, 08:27:12 am: I'll be running Summit Point's Main course in W.VA which is 2 miles. I don't plan on straying away from that course to much in my first year, so I'm trying to focus my setup there.
Title: Re: Best road course spring rate setup
Post by: IraceLegends77 on March 11, 2015, 06:32:36 am: front 275 and rears 180 t0 190 depends how much you weigh
Title: Re: Best road course spring rate setup
Post by: racerrad8 on March 11, 2015, 12:56:46 pm: Quote from: justfreaky on March 09, 2015, 10:43:39 pm
If you are in the 200lb range I would start with 175-185 (F) and 135-150(R). The front needs to just be stiff enough to keep from bottoming out the shocks and ball joints.

Steve

Yeah, that changed several years ago when we started running the sidewall flexing & stickier Federal tires. Since then set-ups are all over the map from really stiff to what would be considered soft at 250 in the front & 175 in the rear.

Randy - RPM
Title: Re: Best road course spring rate setup
Post by: BlueZo6NVA on March 11, 2015, 01:16:54 pm: yea, I would weigh in with all my gear at about 245 lbs, so im thinking that the 250 front and 175 rear may be to soft?
Title: Re: Best road course spring rate setup
Post by: Earnst85 on March 11, 2015, 02:34:01 pm: I weigh about 260 and ran the Turkey Bowl @ Summit a few years ago. I had 275 fronts, 225 (LR) and 200 (RR). I think going stiffer @ Summit would have helped as you have to carry a lot of momentum. There are only a few slow speed corners.
Title: Re: Best road course spring rate setup
Post by: BlueZo6NVA on March 11, 2015, 05:45:28 pm: Awesome! Thanks! I'm hoping to lose a bit of weight before I get out there so those rates should be pretty close. Appreciate it!