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Old 03-29-2009   #1 (permalink)
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Default lifting rear tire

I'm in alaska and my car only get driven a few times a year, in the past 4 years it's only been driven on the track. I road race it, and unfortunatly we don't have many oppourtunities to 'tune' our cars on the track (it's only available 2x a year and is located about 350 miles away from home).

So, I've decided the rear suspension just doesn't handle hard cornering as well as I'd like. Accelerating out of a sharp corner it lifts/spins the inside wheel until the chassis settles and is able to grab with both tires. It has (I believe) a trac-loc in it now, and I plan on upgrading to a Torsen T2R before the next race (memorial day). What other adjustments can I do to help keep the rear flat in a hard corner?

Heres some pertinent car specs...

'87 GT hatch
302/T-5/3.73
6 point cage
Maximum Motorsports Chassis stiffeners,
front:
Maximuim Motorsports strut tower brace
Caster/Camber plates
Adjustable Tokikos
rear:
Torque Tube
Adjustable lower control arms
Panhard bar
adjustable swaybar
Tokiko adjustable shocks
I think the springs are in the 800F/350R range, whatever MM recommended when we bought the package.
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