Yup...I've said it before. ProKits are too soft for what I ask of them. I think the bars control roll more than the springs do...which is really non-ideal. That's the main reason I got my eyes on a set of JIC FLT-A2's. <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/satisfied.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':satisfied:'>
This only happens on tight turns over 90 degrees...especially 180 degree turns...under braking/turn-in, before throttle is applied. But because the inside rear is so unloaded, I have to wait longer to apply the throttle or the inside tire just lights up, the outside front gets overloaded, and I push horribly. It doesn't actually lift a wheel, but I've seen a couple of pictures of my car under these circumstances where the inside rear contact patch is
visibly half that of the outside. At the moment, left foot braking offers less advantage than before...partly b/c of this handling characteristic and partly b/c I have Hawk HPS on the front and AutoZone pads on the rear (i.e. The fronts lose traction instead of the rears when trying to rotate the car with the brakes...my brake bias is too much to the front.) Basically, I can't drive the car into a tight corner as hard as I used to before the pads and front bar...but I suppose better rear pads, stiffer springs, and more bar tuning will have me good as gold...and broke as hell. <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/hehe.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':hehe:'>
10-04-2002, 11:10 AM
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