Re:pedal box, setting bias
2012/09/13 21:38:17
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This maybe useful.
I cleaned off a years mud and ran my first tar event, a garaged hillclimb, a couple of weekends ago as a shake down for king edward park. This was the first chance we had to test the new rear discs on the tar. 1st, my pedal box has 12 turns end to end. For dirt, 3 off full to the rear is the sweet spot. At this I can jump on the brakes in a dirt khanacross or motokhana and it just buries itself. For the hillclimb, we had to sprint to the top, stop, and then race down. Lucky we got plenty of runs. We figured a bit more front because of the increased grip on the front would unload the rear more so we started with 1/2 a turn to the front, then a whole 1 and more and more until the back stopped wanting to overtake us. We ended up at 4 turns off full front, this had just a tad of rear lock before locking all 4. If my maths is right, thats 5 turns between dirt on rally tyres and semi slicks on tar. Because it ran into the night, I forgot to wind it back for the next days dirt motorkhana and the predictable, locked the front and went staright through the garage on the first event.
Overall a good shakedown and a surprising difference between tar and dirt bias.
mk2 2dr club car. pinto, stage 1 valves, rl31 cam, gsxr 600 tb running MS2 extra. :-)))