Advice on setup for street and track!

[TeeLew]

Magneride on the Dark Horse handling package, the car in the avatar, and what is described in that article I quoted, which I am assuming is accurate.

OK, so it's a similar rate, but this will be a different part # with two counterwound rear springs. The Mach 1 only used the ~650 #/in rate on the passive car.

 

[TeeLew]

You can cut coils to adjust ride i assume just like Mark Donohue lol

...or a little more applicable around here, @cjatrains.

The 268# GT500 front with this rear looks like the best combo around using FoMoCo springs on a MR car.

I am under the assumption ford used the magnaride shocks to control the spring rate by rapidly adjusting the rate. I just heard the Dark Horse magnaride works 6 time faster than the S550 MR and the brake line pressure is 50% higher than the S550 which explains a lot. I would be interested in a spring combo that was stiffer. Right now i gotta learn how to drive a dog box trans and left foot brake but i will be interested in in what people come up with as i’ll keep the DH most likely

That's not really how it works. The springs are what they are. Damping forces are varied based on all sorts of different inputs. The response of the electronics have improved, but they were already faster than the physical damper architecture can support, so a marginal gain. I know they worked with Multimatic on the damper tuning, so there will be improvements in that regard.

If you're ever ridden a motorcycle, you've driven a dog box. It's no big deal. You'll be fine.

Let me improve your braking performance for the rest of your life...brake with your right foot. There's no need for you to try to relearn braking along with everything else. The advantage of left-footing a GT car is minimal at best and it encourages a lot of bad habits which then have to unlearned. Just stick with what you know. Twist your foot to the right to blip the throttle on the way down through the box. It's 3 downshifts max and the braking zones are a mile and a half long. There's no rush. You're going to have plenty on your plate without trying to fundamentally change how you drive.

Done very well, left-foot braking opens up some options to manipulate the car dynamically, but only after a lot of training. Anyone starting after the age of 40 is too late. Anyone doing it for speed needs to be faster than Ben Keating before worrying about it.

TeeLewism #65: A man's left foot is the second slowest learning appendage on a his body.

 

[Gunslinger55]

Yeah agreed but it’s never too late to learn new tricks. Being abifootadextrus can’t hurt but i agree been driving around town with left foot braking and it’s terrible lol. The new car has a damn roller accelerator so it to might be difficult to heel toe downshift but all that can be fixed. And not getting in a rush a good idea for sure it will be a slow process

On another note i love how howe racing gives you and instruction book on car setup. Factory cars are a little harder to adjust…..As this thread will attest too