Re: Painting steering wheel etc.

[Domenic Lippolis <domlipps@mail2.nai.net>]

At 10:00 PM 2/13/97 -0600, you wrote:
>At 10:25 PM 2/13/97 -0500, you wrote:
>>About the ride height thing, I'm an E stock autocrosser, so I'm always
>>looking for the best legal mods to stay in class.  I will say this:  lowering
>>an A1 or A2 more than one and a quarter inches will make your handling go to
>>shit!  
>
>huh?? Well, for one, you cant lower your car (via lowering springs or cutting 
>stock springs) and stay in E-stock.
>Secondly, I dont know how you conclude that lowering a car, (AKA the center of 
>gravity) will make a car handle worse? My car sits 2" lower than stock and it 
>has made my car at least 2 full seconds faster on most any track. Id like to 
>hear your reasoning for the poorer performance.   

        Well thats an easy one.  When you cut stock springs you also mess up
the spring rates of the springs and that's what causes the car's handling to
go out the window.  Now in Shawn's case he has springs which lower the car
but are the proper spring rate.
        Moral: Don't cut stock springs and expect good to follow.

					DOM!
					1980 VW Scirocco S
					1983 Alfa Romeo GTV-6
					1986 Kawasaki 600 Ninja
					1979 Piaggio Vespa P125X

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