Trackday settings

[Konrod]

Hi all

Taking the Tuscan on its first trackday next week and wondered if anyone had any suggestions for base settings for the suspension and tyres? I recognise there will be some trial and error, but I'd like to have settings that are close to start with.

Shocks are the latest Gaz Gold pros which I run at 10 clicks front and 12 clicks rear which works well as an average on normal roads. Tyres normally 23/25 front rear.

Cheers

J

[GT TVR]

dampers: would say +4 on the rear and +5 on the front
(BTW think better to run the front dampers harder than the rear, even for normal road)

Tyres: keep as is but monitor them during the day: they will heat up and you'll need to drop the pressure

Edited by GT TVR on Sunday 15th April 06:51

[haircutmike]

GT TVR said:

dampers: would say +4 on the rear and +5 on the front
(BTW think better to run the front dampers harder than the rear, even for normal road)

Tyres: keep as is but monitor them during the day: they will heat up and you'll need to drop the pressure

Edited by GT TVR on Sunday 15th April 06:51

Agree with that, front stiffer by 2-4 clicks then adjust those settings up or down to suit.

[m3jappa]

I've only done one trackday but the car felt the best when it was set to fully stiff and imo could have benefited from being even harder.

I also found that about 23psi hot was best on the tyre but they will all behave differently so have a play around.

[haircutmike]

Fully stiff on some dampers is way too stiff although I used to run my Pro-techs on max but that was because they overheat on track and loose their damping ability being a twin tube damper.

With my Monos, 1/2-2/3rds from soft is more then enough.

Too stiff makes the tail lively and the car won't follow the track easily, you need a certain amount of compliance.

[rens914]

lets talk about the really important stuff
what kind of tyres are you running
olders than 3 years and no semi slick's than forget setttings (from michelin, pirelli, toyo or yoko)
they will help a bit but you still will be all over the place.
a proper set-up is a mixture of a lot of things
youre contact to the tarmac is 4 x allmost nothing
4 x old, hardend and not appropriate stuff makes youre trackday special :0))

rens

[Konrod]

Thanks for all the input chaps. I am running the front harder than the rear - lets just say old age crept in when I made the original post I'll add 5 clicks front and rear and see what happens from there

The tyres are all less then 2 years old but road focussed not track - I expect this trackday will finally kill the rears though so will be on the lookout for some replacements.

Cheers

J