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I just ask because that seems the biggest untold mystery out there.It depends.. If I know the weight distribution I dial the car in roughly, and go from there.
In some cases I just take it to track as default, but not often cause I think the default settings are crap.
I noticed something veeeeery interesting this past week, testing all these at Laguna.
Every car here can be made extremely close to neutral with ride height adjustments only. Example: NSX, front 10mm lower then rear. GTR, equal front and rear. Petronas SC430, front 5mm higher then rear. And this worked for every single car.
No idea what it means, the Eneos is what lead me down this path, and I managed to set almost every car to the same front/rear spring, shocks, arb, camber/toe settings, with just ride height dialing out over/under-steer issues, and it seemed to work really well.
As I can see reading your tuning thoughts, you know there's many ways to approach the same problems, and each can work in it's own way.
It's still a very new concept to me, this only using ride height bit, just thought you'd be interested in hearing about it. My suggestion is trying the NSX like this:
-10 / 0
Stock
Camber/Toe 2.0 / 1.0 - 0.00 / 0.00
Just as a starting point, if anything it's a bit understeery yet, and I tried this at stock weight, so with ballast it'll likely understeer a bit too. Very interested for you or anyone to try it out and let me know what you think of how it works. (It's what made the Eneos driveable for me in the first place)
I'll make a list later, showing the potential "ride height" setups for each car, they all look similar to this, but with different ride heights:
-5 / 0
2.0 / 1.0
15.8 / 15.80.00 / 0.00
7 / 77 / 7
6 / 6
I find it so intriguing because although the amount of ride height difference that's needed for each car changes, the way it works is surprisingly the same on all of them. You could theoretically set every car to almost the same settings aside from ride height.
Oh, and they all work in even increments, meaning 5, or 10mm of adjustment. No cars needed an oddball number to drive well this way, like 7, or 8, etc.