David wrote:
>Howdy all,
> I have a question for some people in the know, for those were at
>petersburgh pro solo, I was the person drviing the honda del sol.
>After I amde the saturday runs several people came up to me and commented
on
>the amont of body roll that my car has. This weekend at a local autocross I
>noticed that my front sway bar endlink bushings where almost chrushed flat,
>I have already ordered some replacments. This car does not have a rear sway
>bar, is there anything that I can do to lessen the body roll and stay in
>E-Stock?
David,
I had a 93 delSol that I ran last year in ES. It did have a lot of body roll
but I had some pictures of it while at extreme roll positions and the
contact patches of all 4 tires were nice and perpendicular to the ground.
Body roll by itself is not necessarily a bad thing.
But I also noticed that the rear toe changed as the body rolled and its was
not always ideal like some other Honda products. Its pretty much accepted
that Honda did not do their best suspension tuning on the DelSol.
So I think it would be desireable to reduce body roll. Unfortunately in
stock class you don't have many options. Really the only place you might be
able to reduce body roll is with shocks. Now someone out there in team.net
land will remind us that the shocks are not supposed to stop body roll
(that's for springs and swaybars) and shocks can only control the speed of
the roll not its amount.
But as a very experienced and expert car setup guy told me "when you only
have shocks to work with that's what you do" In other words get the stiffest
ass shocks you can. Of course, if they are not adjustable life will be hell
on the street. So get a set of adjustable shocks and try stiff settings. I
had Tokico Illuminas and I ended up with 5 front and 4 rear. Tokicos are not
known as the stiffest shock out there so maybe you can do better with Koni
or some other brand.
Good luck and if you can come up to the Harrisburg Pro please say hello.
Regards,
Alan Pozner
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