Re: HELLO AND THANKS

[Kevin Wenzel <kwenzel@privateI.com>]

On Tue, 30 Dec 1997, HCharvat wrote:

> Hey John, be careful with the size of the front bar on your car.  A 25mm may
> be just fine if your running a 28mm in the rear.  If you increase the size of
> the front bar without doing the same in the rear you will increase the amount
> of push in the car.

Not in a stock class - VWs have pretty poor suspension geometry up front;
if you can't touch the rest of the suspension (spring-and-swaybar-wise, I
mean) the bigger the better in front.  I seem to remember Mannix telling
me that Bob Tunnell, in his championship-winning Jetta, used a swaybar 
that he had some RV company make for him... it was like 1.5" or something.

> I also live in Wisconsin, but have not gotten that much snow so my 4 wheel
> drifts have been few and far between, sounds like you have had better luck.
> The yoko's are good tires.  The new AO32's are pretty good (and last a long
> time), but talk to some people in your class and look into the BFG's and the
> Hoosiers.  Yokohama tested the Hoosiers on a road course and found them to be
> 1.5 seconds faster than the AO32's(per my source at yokohama)!

Hoosiers are definitely sticky, but the BFGs seem to be the ticket for stock
cars with lots of body roll (the asymmetrical construction helps with camber
loss).

Kevin Wenzel
1981 VW Scirocco S (w/1.8 JH) - DSP #81 (Blix)
Director of Network Operations, privateI, LLC        
http://www.privateI.com/

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