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Originally Posted by Blu_Redline
Try 42 psi in the front and 45 psi in the rears. That is what I've been using so far and it is doing good for me. Without the LSD, you're just going to smoke the tire(s) coming out of a turn into a straight. After 2 trips to the drags and 3 autocrosses, my front Dunlops have 1/2 the tread of the rears, so I rotated them yesterday. here are some facts that you will have to live with. You will not be faster than those #$%^ WRX's, so get used to being their bitch.  Anything else in D Stock is fair game if you get an LSD and a set of Kuhmo Victor racers. I had a guy in an '05 GTO that was a veteran autocrosser tell me that he was impressed with how the Red Line looked out on the course and that I was doing a real good job hitting the curves and dodging the cones, but it was obvious that the HP of the car easily overpowered the tires and hurt my times. I am looking into getting a set of racing tires (most of the regulars say that tires can make a 2 sec difference) and possibly getting an LSD installed this summer. I have the autocross bug and it is really pointless to push our car without the LSD because of the tremendous wheel spin.
Also try to play with left footed braking while doing 180º sweepers, it will pull the rear of the car down and reduce understeer, allowing you to use more gas pedal and get thru the turn quicker. One of the best drivers left foot brakes through out the whole course (2000 Celica GT) and he is usually THE MAN to beat in the overall PAX class. |
The WRX's are notoriously slow in DS. The AWD is nice, but they are too tall and heavy. Having friven both, the RL is a much better handling car than the WRX.