Hi Ridox,
@ V16T again, I tried the following last night:
- Soften the rear spring rate, down to 10. Yes the rear grip is up but seems not consistent. It feels sticky in the first half of slow corner, refuses to rotate. But when I push it in the second half of corner, it'd still let go without warning (as it always does). I feel the increased rear grip is presented at the wrong spot. I don't like it.
- Raise the rear ride height, try 65/100. As above, it refuses to rotate in the entrance of corner, but not any grippier when I need during accelerating out of a corner. So I don't like this, either.
- So I let the rear spring rate go back to 15 (or even more) and level the ride height for consistency.
My latest setup (with SH tire) is:
- Spring rate: 15 / 17.5 (also tried 18 at rear and it seems fine)
- Damping: don't remember (more or less in proportion to the spring rate)
- ABR: 3 / 2
- Camber: -0.4 (or -0.5) / 0.0
- Toe: 0.00 / -0.30
- LSD: 48 / 12 / 24
It's not a final solution, just another stage of the adaptation to this car (of course). You may see the uncommon
toe out at the rear, which seems to be against common sense.
Yes, the toe out makes the tail step out in the corner, as you'd expect. But I feel such sliding is more progressive and predictable (at least to me). The big ass tends to step out earlier but only a bit, and largely maintain that manner throughout the whole bend. It'd still let go suddenly when pushed beyond its limit, but the more/earlier rotation/slight sliding would be a better alert than the original nothing-nothing-nothing-bang. (Sliding doesn't bother me, it's the sudden letting go I can't deal with.)
Please try it if you have the time, and tell me what you feel.
The most important thing I've learned in the process of tuning this car, is about driving.
And you're absolutely right that this car is not to be pushed. It does its best by 'cruising' along. I have to ditch my bad habbit of impatience on throttle.
In other more communicative cars, I'm used to push them slightly beyond the limit and let them tell me that. Then I react to their reactions. I enjoy such interactions.
This is not working in this car. I have to leave a larger margin before the 'cliff of no return' and stay in the safe zone as much as possible. Funny that it's overall faster this way due to much less mistakes. For example, when accelerating out of a corner, 90% of throttle is not any slower than 100%, but a lot more safer. All too often, the little difference of my throttle input makes huge effect in securing the tail. I just have to know and do that
before it tells me.
I'm forced to relearn the throttle control by this car. Maybe it's the 'respect' it demands.