{"id":548,"date":"2007-03-29T22:00:49","date_gmt":"2007-03-29T22:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.specr53.com\/blog\/?p=548"},"modified":"2007-03-29T22:00:49","modified_gmt":"2007-03-29T22:00:49","slug":"suspension-tuning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/mini\/suspension-tuning\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspension Tuning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s tough finding the right suspension for autocross, track, and daily driving, but I think I have a good mix right now. To recap: Texas Speedwerks springs (stiffer, linear, lower about 20mm); Ireland Engineering Camber Plates (increase front end negative camber); H-Sport rear lower control arms (correct camber in the rear due to lowering); Alta adjustable rear anti-sway-bar (set to medium stiffness); and M7 Strut Tower Reinforcement (STR) Plates to prevent mushrooming.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/camber-plates2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-549\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/camber-plates2.jpg\" alt=\"IE Camber Plates\" width=\"400\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/camber-plates2.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/camber-plates2-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I did my first autocross of the year and first event with a new club, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitaldrivingclub.com\">Capital Driving Club<\/a>, this past weekend. Once the course dried out, the car handled quite well. I was probably the fastest car on street tires and maybe in the top 5 of 24 for the Sunday test &amp; tune. The car is very neutral. I&#8217;m still suffering wheel-spin due to my lack of a limited-slip differential, but I think the car is dialed-in pretty well. Now it&#8217;s up to me to raise my skills to match the car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s tough finding the right suspension for autocross, track, and daily driving, but I think I have a good mix right now. To recap: Texas Speedwerks springs (stiffer, linear, lower about 20mm); Ireland Engineering Camber Plates (increase front end negative camber); H-Sport rear lower control arms (correct camber in the rear due to lowering); Alta &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/mini\/suspension-tuning\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Suspension Tuning&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[178,268],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mini","tag-mini","tag-suspension"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/CDC-AutoX-e1421014371552.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}