# A couple of shots from the weekend... **URL:** \ **Category:** PittSpeed Automotive\ **Created:** [May 9, 2007, 9:46am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/a-couple-of-shots-from-the-weekend/189817 "2007-05-09T09:46:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 10
**Author:** ![tjZ28](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9de0a6/32.png) [@tjZ28](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/tjZ28)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2007, 3:01pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/a-couple-of-shots-from-the-weekend/189817/10 "2007-05-11T15:01:08Z")
> [@For those of you who havent ridden with me...](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/for-those-of-you-who-havent-ridden-with-me/30068/35): > > you think you’ll have to change alignment settings or anything once the car flattens out more with new shocks? 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. > [@reporting to nyspeed..](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/reporting-to-nyspeed/30077/40): > > 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. > > [Google Maps](http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=pittsburgh.+pA&ie=UTF8&ll=40.495477,-80.216686&spn=0.006258,0.009892&t=h&z=17&om=0) > > 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. 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 --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/a-couple-of-shots-from-the-weekend/189817)._