Looking good!

Curious, how much pre-load was left in the rears with them (nearly) all the way down?

Also, are the fronts all the way lowered?

 

Nice dude...

 

There is still a decent amount of pre-load on the rears. I'm not exactly sure how much, but definately more than enough to keep it from being "bouncy". She's nice and stiff.

As for the fronts I can probably go at least another 1/2" lower. Although I wouldn't recommend that as I am scraping the front lip in a few places I travel.



Here's a couple shots of her in "race" trim. These are from our points event #3 this past Sunday:









My co-driver really tucking the tires:




All in all the car is VERY balanced now. Body roll has almost been completely eliminated (next up, sway bars..) and the handling is fantastic. The rear end was a little twitchy, but once the tires warmed up it was much better. It was a pretty cold day and with high winds we were having problems keeping the tire temps where they needed to be. It was a good day though as we finished 1st and 3rd in STX out of 7 with the top 3 people being all within .353 seconds of each other. Overall we both placed in the top 10 in PAX out of 79 drivers

 

Wow you are about to scrape those side skirts!

 

soooo low... how stiff were you running?

 

With the lot we run on there are a lot of elevation changes. I managed to put my front lip into the ground a couple times. The tires we run on are 255 40 17's (Direzza Z1's) and they are an inch shorter in height, thus lowering the car an additional 1/2" in comparison to my 18's. I have to raise the car up a bit to compensate for it. I don't want to tear that front lip off anytime soon


Right now the dampers are set at 8 clicks out of 15 on all four corners and the car feels great. I was going to dial the back end a little softer because it was twitchy and we couldn't get the tires warm enough (very cold and windy day) but once we started getting moving through the run group the tire temp came up enough that I didn't have to dial the dampers back.

All in all she handled great, I was very pleased with the suspension.