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Hotchkis sways, ? about actual adjustable setup

Old Nov 18, 2007 | 09:47 AM
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Originally Posted by mw9
Are there after market or upgraded end links that anyone knows about.


We are now dealers for these, made by Powergrid. I've used ALOT of parts in my day, few have been purpose build, or worked as well as these! A far better solution than the traditional ball socket/heim joint style, as these are maintainance free, and will never make noise $300 shipped for the front and rear set. We spent a long time trying to develop our own endlink, and purchased all the current ones on the market as part of our work. When we got these in house and starting playing with the, we decided it was not worth pursuing our own design, as these did everything we wanted.


http://www.z1auto.com/prodmore.asp?m...ng&prodid=2886


these are in stock, and ready to ship!

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Old Nov 18, 2007 | 06:40 PM
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How do you go about adjusting those endlinks to your set-up? Id like to add some Hotchkis sways and possibly those endlinks to my set-up...
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Old Nov 18, 2007 | 06:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Alberto
How do you go about adjusting those endlinks to your set-up? Id like to add some Hotchkis sways and possibly those endlinks to my set-up...
the car has to be put on a set of scales and cornerbalanced
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Old Nov 18, 2007 | 08:01 PM
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bump for a real good read
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Old Nov 18, 2007 | 08:14 PM
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If anyone is aware of discussion's on SCCAforums about staggered bar settings can you post a link to the thread(s). Not something I have the least desire to do knowing what going on in application, but would be interesting to see what the folks their might have said.
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Old Nov 18, 2007 | 10:16 PM
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Originally Posted by VIZAGE
Thanks. I never even saw this thread. I have mine set at full stiffness front and rear. Just need the rear a tad softer for grip on exit. For me this is going to be ideal. I don't track as of yet. Just a lot of spirted driving, moutains, etc.
Full stiff , WOW. You must be running some huge slicks front and back to need that? I run with mine on hole 2 in the front and hole 1 in the rear with 255 front and 275 Falken 615's. That setup works great for daily driving too.
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Old Nov 19, 2007 | 12:36 PM
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No, no slicks. Just dialed to my likings. I like a stiff ride. Nobody can really tell you what your ideal settings should be set at. This setup feels great to me. But I really don't have it to full stiffness right now. I did though. I have staggered the setup in the rear to give it a little less percentage of stiffness in the rear. Feels great IMO. That's really what this thread was about. But I plan to do a lot more searching about proper setups.
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Old Nov 19, 2007 | 06:30 PM
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Originally Posted by VIZAGE
No, no slicks. Just dialed to my likings. I like a stiff ride. Nobody can really tell you what your ideal settings should be set at. This setup feels great to me. But I really don't have it to full stiffness right now. I did though. I have staggered the setup in the rear to give it a little less percentage of stiffness in the rear. Feels great IMO. That's really what this thread was about. But I plan to do a lot more searching about proper setups.
Actually lap times are a great tool to use for setup along with feel.
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Old Nov 20, 2007 | 02:46 PM
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*update*

I dug out the old "G-Timer" and did a little testing at my favorite spot....


1.01 G's when turning to the left and 1.03 G's when turning to the right. Those are the max readings. They varied around .97-1.0 in both directions.
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Old Nov 20, 2007 | 02:49 PM
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Sounds close enough for me.
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