[Grant]

So, this weekend I got underneath the car to adjust my rear sway bar to the stiffest position and see if that would help with my massive understeer.

How happy was I to notice that one of the 14mm bolts that attaches the sway bar end link to the dedion had worked its way off of the car, and probably onto the side of the road somewhere. So all of this time, I was assuming the rear sway bar was on it's 2nd to stiffest setting, and still allowing the car to understeer massively.

I quickly found a 14mm bolt from my parts car, and hooked it up and went for a drive (unfortunately, gone are the expensive looking machined heim joint adapters that I got with my rear RSR bar.) With the sway bar in the same position, I was oversteering by the first turn! It was definitely scary, but atleast it wasn't ploughing like it's been doing for the last few months.

I came back, and set the bar to it's softest setting, and went out for another drive.

Man this thing is fun now! Before I adjusted the rear bar, the inside rear wheel would spin on tight turns, even with my functional LSD. Now with the bar on the softest setting, it still oversteers a bit too much (not so safe, and probably not so fast on the track either) but finally I can dictate whether I want the front wheels sliding, or the rears. I can pitch the car into a turn sideways enough to make even Ron proud, or smoothly enter and leave the turn....it's quite fun indeed.

I didn't have much time this weekend to drive it much but I did manage to make it to Highway 9 (a good reference for you local transaxle guys) for an hour or so. The shankle SS spring rates are just about right for the occasional bumps on the backside of 9 and skyline, but I think they are too soft for any serious dips or rises. I also noticed that with the drop spindles, the car rolls less than before. I can also get oversteer with the bar on the softest postion, like I said above, where as before, I had to have the bar on nearly the stiffest setting jus to keep the car from understeering off the road. It's not perfect, but so far I'm happy with this setup, and I DO think drop spindles made a big difference with my softish spring rates.

I think the mods in my sig. could be a slightly cheaper, and more supple alternative to Ron's coilovers. That being said, I would want coilovers for mostlry track use, even without drop spindles (as I don't think they will do a whole lot.) I think the drop spindles could benefit a coilover car even, as the higher roll center should allow the usage of softer spring up front, which should keep the car from skittering up front on the bumpy stuff.

OK, back to finals.