Originally Posted by Steve in NOColorado:
When you adjust stagger for track conditions do you usually then also make an adjustment to the corner weight with the torsion bar also? I remember once making a stagger adjustment on a 270 micro that had the opposite of the desired effect. We added pressure to the right rear to increase the stagger to try to loosen the car up but when the driver came back in he said it was worse than before. Later after thinking about what we had done I concluded that we probably needed to take the weight that we added to the right rear out with an adjustment to the torsion bar. But I'm not sure if my assessment is correct or if something else caused the car to be tighter than it was before we added the air pressure.
Steve
Looks like you have been researching this problem a little bit. With the 13 inch wheels we don't usually worry about bar adjustments to compensate for difference in diameter of the tire, usually a fraction of an inch or so. If you want it tight you add weight to the left rear not the right. What probably happened to you is the track changed on you.
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