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Ta!
The rear damping is quite soft at the moment, but the rebound feels quite fast and linear so assume a softer spring rate would be the thing to try if did want to soften it further? My instinct was to source a softer spring and drop from three piston holes to two. But not right now.
Intention with the ball diff set up was to start from a neutral to understeer baseline then go from there. I guess I've achieved that now whilst having a composed car on the bumpy stuff.
Of the settings that feel the most 'extreme' the front diff is quite tight, so maybe that's the place to start by backing that off a touch. I learned last night that most folks run ball diffs on this track as it's so lumpy. I assumed they were all running gears but nope.
Howard
Experience from real cars:
Stiffening up the front end will make it tend to want to understeer. Softening the rear will have the same effect, but will make the car tend to squat out of bends and you’ll be able to put the power down harder. If you’re wanting to stiffen the front, be sure it’s not because you’re trying to mask the back end being too stiff.
Lazy-feeling steering may be too much toe out. If you want to sharpen up the turn in, add a bit more toe in at the front.
You should be able to run the rear diff fairly tight. What you don’t want to be doing is masking poor handling by inducing slip on the inside rear wheel. You’ll be losing acceleration out of corners when you do that. See the first point, if the back end is too stiff, are you running the rear diff loose because otherwise it’s oversteering on acceleration out of bends? Maybe the rear end needs softening to make it dig in more.
Do one thing at a time.