24hrlemons
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Ok, I am on a team and we're racing a '98 V6 5 speed stocker in the Lemons series. We added a 6 point roll bar and have it prepped out for racing (stripped) We took it to a track day and flogged it.
We had a blast, but the car needs work on handling. This will be a track only car.
Under braking going into turns, the rear raises up a LOT and rear end gets very light and starts to come around. You can keep that under control but then after letting off the brake it starts serious understeer. You can apply throttle to try to loosen the back up but w/o a v8 and open rear diff this isn't really working well.
Our tires, well we're a lemon's team so they were what was on the car. 245 40 or 45 16" on back, 205 50's on front. The fronts were worn about 2/3 and looking hard so we swapped them to the back, trying to stick the front better. Now the rear was really loose and spun a lot coming out of corners, which was fun but not fast. We are going to relocate the battery.
Questions:
To keep rear end from rising up so much, I was considering adding a suspension travel limit strap like from a 4x4. Does that make sense?
I'm going to try getting some v8 springs and then cutting them down a bit, we can't put $$ in the car with new hopup parts, have read posts on subject. If I drop it 1.5" or so, any ideas on how much I should move the struts? I'd like to make some plates for the struts, but that looks complicated, although we have a guy on the team who has a business that could probably make them (G).
I was going to look at making a version of the Max Motosp. panhard bar for rear.
I think I need increase rear bar, I'm guessing a GT rear is bigger than the v6?
Should we get 17" tires and wheels, or stick to the 16 stockers? those are not part of the build budget for this series as they are safety item.
TIA,
Scott
We had a blast, but the car needs work on handling. This will be a track only car.
Under braking going into turns, the rear raises up a LOT and rear end gets very light and starts to come around. You can keep that under control but then after letting off the brake it starts serious understeer. You can apply throttle to try to loosen the back up but w/o a v8 and open rear diff this isn't really working well.
Our tires, well we're a lemon's team so they were what was on the car. 245 40 or 45 16" on back, 205 50's on front. The fronts were worn about 2/3 and looking hard so we swapped them to the back, trying to stick the front better. Now the rear was really loose and spun a lot coming out of corners, which was fun but not fast. We are going to relocate the battery.
Questions:
To keep rear end from rising up so much, I was considering adding a suspension travel limit strap like from a 4x4. Does that make sense?
I'm going to try getting some v8 springs and then cutting them down a bit, we can't put $$ in the car with new hopup parts, have read posts on subject. If I drop it 1.5" or so, any ideas on how much I should move the struts? I'd like to make some plates for the struts, but that looks complicated, although we have a guy on the team who has a business that could probably make them (G).
I was going to look at making a version of the Max Motosp. panhard bar for rear.
I think I need increase rear bar, I'm guessing a GT rear is bigger than the v6?
Should we get 17" tires and wheels, or stick to the 16 stockers? those are not part of the build budget for this series as they are safety item.
TIA,
Scott