18" Toyo R888's have transformed the car
04-30-2008, 08:34 AM
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I finally got to try the 255-315 combo after 2 sets of 245-305's (both R888's). It took a little getting used to; I no longer had to wait as long for the car to transfer it's weight before I could get on the throttle, so overall I loved the new combo. My only gripe was the VERY slow turns, where I could not get the car to stop from understeering. The car felt great with high speed turns (not like stock, where the car would severely understeer in high speed turns), but I had major issues at the hairpin at Homestead. I loosened the the swaybar all the way up in front to no avail. I tried soft spring, hard spring, TC on, TC off, but basically could not get the car to rotate even with the most severe trailbraking. The good thing was that this is a VERY slow turn, but the bad thing was that it leads to a straight away, and I could not get on the gas. Will have to experiment with a GT2 rear sway bar if the problem persists. I was running approx 36F, 38R hot
04-30-2008, 10:54 AM
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I finally got to try the 255-315 combo after 2 sets of 245-305's (both R888's). It took a little getting used to; I no longer had to wait as long for the car to transfer it's weight before I could get on the throttle, so overall I loved the new combo. My only gripe was the VERY slow turns, where I could not get the car to stop from understeering. The car felt great with high speed turns (not like stock, where the car would severely understeer in high speed turns), but I had major issues at the hairpin at Homestead. I loosened the the swaybar all the way up in front to no avail. I tried soft spring, hard spring, TC on, TC off, but basically could not get the car to rotate even with the most severe trailbraking. The good thing was that this is a VERY slow turn, but the bad thing was that it leads to a straight away, and I could not get on the gas. Will have to experiment with a GT2 rear sway bar if the problem persists. I was running approx 36F, 38R hot
i have to either slow way down on entry or let the car drift sideways and make the turn like rally cars.
