Sonzilla, that post looks quite impressive! +rep:tup:
And here's the review of LdS's Widowmaker!
Mercedes 300 SL '54 aka. The Widowmaker.
First I would like to say to you, what a wonderful choice! This car is to me a piece of art in the history of all cars.
But don't be worried, this won't influence my observations about your tuning.
To see what difference your settings would make, I first took the car Stock to Autumn ring. For me, this where my observations:
On the driving part, is the car an easy going one. I think it could use some extra power and a racing suspension.
Now I applied your parts and settings to the car. I have to notice you about the fact that some things you did quite surprised me. Later this will be further explained.
So I took the car out for a ride.
The car drove quite good. I did notice though that I had some trouble with understeer at the turn in of most corners and a lot of oversteer at some corner exits, if you push it. especially at the corner after a slope downhill after the 2nd hairpin on Autumn Ring.
The things that had caused my surprise were the Ride height and the ballast weight. Because of the high rear, you would make your car oversteer, especially at corner exit. After testing, I noticed this was true. I'd suggest you to lower the rear.
And the understeer at turn in could be solved by lowering the front dampers with one tick.
Now about the ballast weight, I was wondering why did you do it?
As I can tell, -25 front/rear balance means you're adding weight to the front.
The car is FR, meaning the engine is placed up front. If you want to get closer to a 50/50 weight balance, you should add weight at the rear. So why would anyone place 50 kilogrammes(hey, that's almost as much as I am! just 10 kg to low
) up front? Why should you add weight at all?
I would give this set up a 7/10. The set up was good, although the suspension needed some more tweaking.
I hope this will help you, Cheers!
Vince.
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(extra motivation
