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Originally Posted by ndporsche
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3) I was a bit surprised with the amount of body roll you had on the slalom. If you stick with the Cayman for the track, maybe a Bilstein setup would be in order. But then again, car 36 (silver CS) runs in 4, and he's very fast. He says he hasn't done any suspension work, and I didn't notice too much roll on the track when I was in front of him (for awhile) or behind him (most of the time). Maybe the slalom isn't a good judge of the suspension.
John
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The body roll may be from my instructor - Fred. No - he doesn't weigh 400 pounds. We watched the others going down the track and by the seventh or eighth cone, most people had narrowed the width of their path through the cones dramatically. At the end, they were going around the cones very near 3 and 9 on the clock - rather than 1.5 and 10.5. Fred insisted I keep the speed up and try to kick the tail out.
Having said that - I'm now planning my mods to the car! I signed up for the Quaife
LSD October shipment. I'm still trying to figure out what suspension I will put in place. I don't have the sport mode - so some of the options are out for me. I was considering sway bars too - but I want them to be discreet.
Any advice?
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LSD - Limited Slip Differential
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A limited slip differential (LSD) is a modified or derived type of differential gear arrangement that allows for some difference in rotational velocity of the output shafts, but does not allow the difference in speed to increase beyond a preset amount. In an automobile, such limited slip differentials are sometimes used in place of a standard differential, where they convey certain dynamic advantages, at the expense of greater complexity.
The main advantage of a limited slip differential is found by considering the case of a standard (or "open") differential where one wheel has no contact with the ground at all. In such a case, the contacting wheel will remain stationary, and the non-contacting wheel will rotate freely– the torque transmitted will be equal at both wheels, but will not exceed the threshold of torque needed to move the vehicle, thus the vehicle will remain stationary. In everyday use on typical roads, such a situation is very unlikely, and so a normal differential suffices. For more demanding use however, such as driving off-road, or for high performance vehicles, such a state of affairs is undesirable, and the LSD can be employed to deal with it. By limiting the velocity difference between a pair of driven wheels, useful torque can be transmitted as long as there is some friction available on at least one of the wheels.
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