DistantTea
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- Mazdaspeed... of DOOM!
So I had my AWR go fast parts and some ground controls and one killer alignment going for me. In an effort to be able to drive the damn car again I gave all that up and went back to OEM... except without a rear sway bar, left my brakes in autocross mode (because thats always good) and I'm keeping the 16x7 Rota Slipstreams (I just like 'em).
Problem is my new crappy all seasons haven't shown up yet for highway duty. Also I haven't had a new alignment since I went back to OEM springs. So imagine this. You run -2.4 degrees of camber in the front and -1 with some terrifying toe out in the back. You wear four Falken Azenis Sports to hell and back with that setup with daily driving instead of autocrossing. You then remove all the geometry change you did the first place and now run, roughly, -.8 degrees in teh front and -1 in the rear. So the front tires now have about -1.8 degrees of built in negative camber. Driving the car is like a shopping cart. The tires REFUSE to stay on center because they are rolling on about 2" of unworn outside edge. When you turn the car turns faster than you want it to and is hard as hell to get back to center.
Its a trip and a half. So here's to all the peeps who still have their MSPs setup for racing like it should be. My ugly little thing is going to be a winter driver for a while... so soft that I might just vommit. But hey its better than hitting a tree.
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Problem is my new crappy all seasons haven't shown up yet for highway duty. Also I haven't had a new alignment since I went back to OEM springs. So imagine this. You run -2.4 degrees of camber in the front and -1 with some terrifying toe out in the back. You wear four Falken Azenis Sports to hell and back with that setup with daily driving instead of autocrossing. You then remove all the geometry change you did the first place and now run, roughly, -.8 degrees in teh front and -1 in the rear. So the front tires now have about -1.8 degrees of built in negative camber. Driving the car is like a shopping cart. The tires REFUSE to stay on center because they are rolling on about 2" of unworn outside edge. When you turn the car turns faster than you want it to and is hard as hell to get back to center.
Its a trip and a half. So here's to all the peeps who still have their MSPs setup for racing like it should be. My ugly little thing is going to be a winter driver for a while... so soft that I might just vommit. But hey its better than hitting a tree.
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