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MaTBoY Grand Master

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Geez... what is it with creepy old men and my sexy body?

Creepy gentlemen aside it was a good night with some solid info. I even learnt some stuff.

Thanks to team at wholesale suspension for putting the night on.

wolverine Grand Master

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Disappointed that we didn't get Duncan's car on the hoist to play spot the oil leak. Just guessing that everyone would win a prize.

Thanks SAU NSW and the staff from Wholesale Suspension for a fun informative night.

GTR-N1 Grand Master

GTR-N1

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Dear son of rajab......fml still at work, hopefully can smash this last job and get over there....steering box in a 100 series and wheel alignment:( unlikely.

May have to rock up halfa late

Even though it states that "The Legends Night" bookings are sold out Zach, you're tentaively included so long as you fix up SAU with payment real quick.

Tis great you came > good chat!

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Even though it states that "The Legends Night" bookings are sold out Zach, you're tentaively included so long as you fix up SAU with payment real quick.

Tis great you came > good chat!

Awesome! Is that just me or me+ the wife? Just need to know as I'll process payment tonight! Much appreciated!

GoldZilla Grand Master

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Agreed with all, was a good night and the Wholesale Suspension boys (and girl) were great to deal with and taught us some very useful information.

Duncan, Neil and myself had a stalker @ Penrith McD's beforehand - he parked right next to us and must have been waiting for us to come back to the cars then pounced on us with chat about his three Datto 200Bs. I guess that's what two damned fine Stageas parked side-by-side attracts in that neck of the woods, hey?

His car was pretty cool though.

Duncan Grand Master

Duncan

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lol what use is a clone unless they are under your direct control, and can do all the boring stuff you don't want to do each day.

Pat won't cut it for me, I'm going to keep working on the mechanical clone in the back of my garage.....all I need is a lightning storm to power it up muahahahahahhahahahahahaha

Pezhead Grand Master

Pezhead

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I kept trying to think why Pat looked so familiar! Pat = Duncan Doppleganger!

Somebody have their email? I want to thank them for such a great night.

Loads of good info:

* No "recipe" to great suspension setup

* Good suspension is about balance - to the car setup, tyre setup and duty (e.g. street, track, skidpan, strip, drift, etc)

* More <> Better - often spring rates are too stiff in straight aftermarket packages

* Balance is the key to quick - NOT flatter. Lots of guys set up for a "Flat" car not realising that weight transfer (e.g. some roll) is important to getting more grip

* It was amazing to see how 8mm-10mm of squat caused toe and camber to really move. You can really imaging then how much toe in/out changes dynamically as you go around a track.

* Interesting the effects of good aero on the suspension set-up. Those time attack cars and F1 can run less camber but still maintain even tyre contact because the aero is adding additional down force "weight" increasing grip.

Upgrades:

* Best first upgrade is a poly bush (hehe I said bush) - on 10 yr old cars stock rubber ones will just be worn out. Unless a full track car, you want a poly instead of aluminium to soak a little vibration and not transfer too much of that into the chassis from normal crappy nsw roads

* Coil overs (dampening), spring rates and tyres need to be balanced in order to work well, e.g. Stiff sidewall tyres can take stiffer springs and harder dampening, if you are just going to run road tyres then you should use looser suspension & springs otherwise your tyres are taking too much of the shock/dampening work that adversly affects their work on traction

* Sway bars are just used to control body roll to affect and maximise weight transfer (note that I didn't say body roll - it's about weight transfer/Grip relationship)

Great practical advice and enough theory explaination to help us out in finding a good balanced upgrade approach.

GTR-N1 Grand Master

GTR-N1

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[email protected]

www.wholesalesuspension.com.au

02-47212112

You can confirm that their employee Matt might wish to buy 2x tix to Legends Night + any others? > Followup...

My business brain on the night asked if they'd like to make up some DL cards for SAU "Partners" to stick in their caryards and workshops? > Followup...

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