Passing Thought

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I'm at work right now but I was just thinking about one of my current tuning projects. I'm working on my Mazda RX-7 TC and it can have a lot of wheel spin when getting on the gas in low speed corners. Do you guys think this could be in part because the car is perhaps too light and could be fixed if it was given a little ballast? Just wondering in passing.
 
^not neccesarily, Ballast would give you more weight and more inertia meaning any grip gains you'd make would mean more power would be required to move the car. Try a higher gear set by either raising your final(making the number smaller) or resetting your trans to a high Topspeed and retuning it from there.
 
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^not neccesarily, Ballast would give you more weight and more inertia meaning any grip gains you'd make would mean more power would be required to move the car. Try a higher gear set by either raising your final(making the number smaller) or resetting your trans to a high Topspeed and retuning it from there.
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Alright then, thank you sir!
 
Does one wheel break loose first? Which one? If outside, lower LSD accel. If inside, raise LSD accel.

Gearbox is another great way. 2nd gear needs to be taller.
Move final gear all the way right.
Top Speed all the way left.
2nd gear mostly left.
Highest gear (5th, 6th or 7th) all the way right.
Pretty even spacing between the rest of the gears.

This will give you the tallest 2nd gear possible.
 
You don't really need to make any drastic gear ratio changes. For the most part its the suspension. what worked for me is that I made the shock compression softer than the decompression (if I rember that right, the bottom number is lower than the top number and by softer im only talking about 1 level) and I never really had to mess with anything else for wheel spin.
 

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