Speedy88 wrote:Power is applied fine until I go to turn. I'm turning now, wheee *que 20 feet of tyre smoke from offside*
I had that really bad when car had standard 360GL springs and shocks, I put GLT springs to front, GLT/GLE gas shocks to front and new GL oil shocks to rear, it got better, but still it would of needed some more weight to rear or preferably locker diff. There were especially two corners on track that I used, where problem was quite bad, I lost quite a bit of time in those as both were quite long corners in slow speed.
If I put pedal down right after apex only thing that did happened was that motor hit rpm limiter and pillow of blue smoke emerged from rear part of the car. So I had to wait 3 to 5 seconds depending from the turn before I could go to throttle. I did try to compensate that by making later tighter turn in, but -0.2 degrees of front camber was not going to co-operate with me there, front wheels did bend under the car, getting wear to sidewalls of tire (185/60/14 @ 3bar).
Front should be stiffer than rear, but then again that causes also more understeer at corner entry, but I think it could of been fixed with adding thin extra leaf to rear and of course adjusting daper rates both front and rear which would of required adjustable dampers to be bought, it would of been good route as I did hit bump stops few times in every lap. Putting ARB from Whiteline to front and adding some not too strong ARB to rear would been another way around this issue, but that would still left bottoming issues.
It is not a sports car, just good small family car, it needs some amount of work to be able to be a sports car, actually quite a lot of work as whole suspension needs to be fixed and even at stock GL diff is too tall, dropping out from powerband quite easily.
My french crap diesel has higher RPM at 80kph than my 360, that is tall diff ratio, imo
when i stripped my interior out the car went faster simple
