sounds more like a comfy street setup which most people want. there are other ways to get rid of the dreaded understeer. there is plenty stock camber adjustment in the rear that easliy make the car rotate.

 

Yeah, I bet you'll feel EVERY imperfection in the road, cuz I already feel every stupid tar line and stuff...lol, it's worth it

 

It's hard for me to give an opinion on handling right now because the all season tires made the car so unresponsive. When the Advans go back on than I'll see how handling has improved.

Zach, I get the car aligned on Monday, and it will get back to factory specs no problem.

 

Hi guys. New here. Just bought a Silver '03 Evo. Love the car. I'm a student up at the U. Car is stock but got some parts coming in. Downpipe, cat delete pipe, and a cat back. TT just installed about a week ago, Greddy. See ya guys around sometime.

 

Welcome o'genkichan...astro and I are also students at the U, and I'm still pretty sure there's a red one I've seen up there a million times...but yeah, welcome...what brand is the exhaust system?

 

Welcome

 

I had tein lowering springs on my car before I got coilovers. They seemed to work fine for the first bit, but rapidly got worse as the strut wore out. The problem I see with just doing springs is you throw the strut/shock out of it's efficiency range, and cause it to lose it's performance(it get's hotter faster, causing a soft sometimes bouncey shock feel) This is why coilovers have adjustable ride height by raising only the lower coller/mounting bracket.

Ray, do you know where I can find some good write ups on camber, castor, and alignment for our cars?? I'm planning on getting my car corner balanced/weighted, but I want a bit more aggresive alignment, and don't really know where to start.

 

sorry don't know where there are any write-ups. it's all in my head.

tell me what you want the car to do. and what the car is doing now. it is amazing on what you can do with alignment settings to make the car dance the way you want it to.

just ask me. i'll help you the best i can. just ask jake on how his car handles after i was done with it. and yes, i aligned it too.

 

Do you have an alignment machine???

 

Good question, I need an alignment before autox season starts.

 

Ray, give me a call 801-920-3084 I'm very interested in picking your brain about alignment. I saw your evo at a few different auto-x events last year, and whether it's the way you drive, or the way the car was set-up it was impressive, and seemed to work well.
thanks,
Rob

 

The Evo will be dominating Big Cottenwood canyon tomorrow, and I'll be killin' Brighton.

Discuss.

 

Jared sucks, end of discussion. and yes Ray's alignment roxors hardcore, my tires are actually perfectly wearing out...oh, right, and they handle really nice too

 

Don't pick his brain -- there's all kinds of disGUSTing gunk up there! Besides, just take it to him or one of his guys and have them do the alignment.

Before the install of Jake's ... err Ray's coilovers ... onto Jake's car, the body roll was awful. The handling was excellent, but the body roll was atrocious. Improvement was very noticeable.

Ray, you should have gone with JRZ coilovers. The JIC's are ricer POS.

o-genkichan, welcome! We're all going down to an open track event at Spring Mountain in Nevada (40 min or so from Vegas) on 19-20 Mar. Come on out!

 

HAHA yeah i wish. Last time i took something off the shelf without asking i woke up waering my a$$ for a hat.

Ben