[Grant]

Bob, I'm always curious to see what other people are running. So, you feel that a transaxle Alfa with some work can be a competetive chassis?

Do you have a website?

I'm not a dedicated racer, I've just gotten into time trialing. My car is also dual purpse; I use this car as my daily driver. There will be many differences between our cars then.

That being said, I'm using about 1 1/4 inch drop on my spindles (which nearly necessitates 16" wheels) and soft 27mm torsion bars and about 154lb/inch rear springs.

My car's handling is funky at the moment. I have no idea what the corner weights are, but it understeers on right turns and oversteers on left turns. I'm relocating the battery to the trunk to see if that will help with the understeer but I need corner weights to deal with the handling issues. Corner weighting a car with torsion bars is goign to be a %@$!^ I think. Actually, what's more upsetting is that I think the Milano is so flexible that my efforts to adjust the rear sway bar only seem to make that end lose or gain rear grip, instead of helping the front end gain or lose grip. I wish I could run a cage 24/7.

My alignment is about 2.4 degress negative camber, 0 toe (tire wear) and only 1.4 degrees of caster b/c of rubbing issues. I'm using 225/45/16 tires on 16X7.5 et37 wheels. Bushings are poly in the rear, and stock up front besides poly caster bushes.

Do you know of any other sources for torsion bars in the US besides AR Ricambi and Performatek? I'm looking for about a 30mm bar in the states.