Some pics:
A little too tight on my line here:
Ready to roll (well, hopefully not roll):
Gettin’ mah lean on even w/ the 38mm T1 front bar:
-TJ
nice Tj,i like the #'s
hahaha… i agree, very professional “33” 
Damn you and your large lots lol. Looks good as always! I take it you didn’t get the shocks or anything yet?
Man, that looks like fun.
Yeah… that lot rules. Military grade concrete that doesn’t shift or crack. Smooth and grippy as all hell, and huuuuuge.
Oh, and no shocks yet. I have a lot of calls/emails out to the major coil-over makers. I don’t like their off-the-shelf spring rates. Of course thats an easy change, but I want the shock curves adjusted to match the spring rates I want so that I stay within the range of adjustability of the shocks. I don’t want to just have to crank 'em to full-stiff and call it “good enough.”
But as you can tell right now I’m lifting the inside front tire a hair under hard turn/accel.
Even w/ that compromised setup I was just a c-hair behind a fully prepped GT3 on fresh A6s (my A6s are used road course qualifying tires, heat cycled beyond their prime) and a national champ level driver. I can’t wait to get this thing working right.
Everybody else: you know my numbers are super-sweet!!!
-TJ
sweet pics. of course i love the car. Chris, get tracks like that for the auto-x around here and i’ll make time to be there every weekend!
you think you’ll have to change alignment settings or anything once the car flattens out more with new shocks?
Yea, but if we get tracks like that then I have to buy a faster car :eek3:. WAY back in the day they use to race at the Sony (VW then) plant and the Connisville airport. Reportedly those courses were pretty damn fast. There is a spot in Pittsburgh sorta like that, but I don’t think they will let us in lol.
TJ - Thats cool your toying with the rates. I’m sure whatever you pick will make my 450/500lb setup look like a couple of bed springs. That said bumping my spring rate again over the winter was the best thing I’ve done, I can barely keep up with the car in a slalom now.
No, I probably won’t need to. Right now I still could use more neg. camber since the car is rolling as much as it is. But with all that neg. camber and the inside front tire unweighting I’m putting a lot of heat into the very inside of the tires as it gets drug across the pavement. Once I get the car to level out some I should even out heat and contact patch as-is.
You’d be surprised… the Doug Rippie Motorsport coil overs use a 450/600 front/rear and they claim that is effectively ~30% stiffer than the Z06 setup (my stock spring rates are 525/714 but that is a transverse mounted leaf spring, so the actual wheel rates are way different). DRM claims that’s only 50# shy of what they run on their race cars. But those are road course optimized setups… AutoX is a lot more violent and in general likes more spring rate. I’m thinking closer to 550/700 front/rear but I still have a lot of research to do… then there’s the whole issue of making sure I can get a shock valved to match.
-TJ