Pro tech set-up

[johns355]

Hi fellas, what ride height/ suspension settings are people running? I don't track the car, mainly a/b roads, standard 3r, thanks

[stevegto3]

my road settings as:
Front- R:7 B:8
Rear - R:7 B:8

Ultimately its down the personal preference, but try a set of settings and then put 50 or so miles before tweaking.

Steve

[TuxMan]

Ride height should be 5" at the cill behind the front wheel and 5.25" at the cill in front of the rear wheel .
As Steve says setup very personal but I normaly have the rear stiffer than the front .

[stevegto3]

That is probably due to you having an extra 300bhp on the rear wheels ;-)

[funkybmx1]

I'm sure the front should be a bitter stiffer than the rear. Steve will be along to correct me no doubt. Better traction and grip rear. With better turn in on front. If I have that right

[Green3R]

Generally weight will transfer to the soft end so having softer rear will enable weight transfer to the rear under acceleration, so more grip.
Conversely going softer on the front give a front bias under braking giving a sharper turn-in.
My thoughts are to run everything as soft as you can get away with, that way the tyres are in contact with the ground more of the time. If harder was better, then a solid steel bar is cheaper than a spring and shock..!

I think.

but I could be wrong.

Frequently.

[daddysumo]

That depends on how hard you want to push the tyre onto the surface below it ...

[andygtt]

The setup should/will depend on spec and use of the car.... my settings etc as massively different to other with high power packages, it also differs to personal preference. You could go with other settings but it may not work on you car and cars have varied quite a bit in their requirements for setup.

For a relatively stock car IMO you should keep ride height as standard recommendations, I think thats 5.5inch rear and 5inch front measured from the chassis rail C/L of the wheel but you should check the wiki. You could go one better and corner weight it which means setting ride height in each corner to get the weights as close as possible.

Regarding shock settings, turn the bump and rebound full soft on all corners... then go round each corner and adjust the rebound by pushing the car down hard and clicking the rebound up until it doesn't 'bounce... then give it a single extra click, record the setting for that side and repeat on all the other corners.
Once rebound is set leave it alone unless you corner weight the car again OR change the cars weight significantly, you shouldn't be playing with this setting as go up and down from this setting will result in worse handling and comfort.... you can then choose the bump that you like... adjust both the front or both the rear the same amounts each time, personally I would drive the car on a few different settings and see what you like, if the car is too soft on rear up the rear but leave front alone see how it feels.