Evo X upgrades

[FattyBoomBatty]

Gonna daily drive it?

[simulatedwood]

I have an appointment for Wed at Stellar Autoworks for corner balance, alignment, and Road Force balance on the tires. I went to their open house the other day...the owners seem nice.

I'm debating between -2/-1 and -2.5/-1.5 on the alignment. I'm leaning toward the former since I care more about road course than auto-x. I have a little time to ponder it.

Depending on the tire pressures and how aggressive you drive will determine the "correct" number for car camber settings. The type of racing does not really matter for camber, the goal is even tire wear depending on how agressive a driver you are. No one wants to throw away a set of tires prematurely. I would focus on the rear toe and caster setting as this will determine how fast the car rotates. What are some of the track guys telling you?

[mlomker]

Gonna daily drive it?

Not really. The car is no fun in stop-n-go and I won't drive it in the Winter, other than to a shop.

What are some of the track guys telling you?

There isn't much agreement on the alignment threads other than a difference of 1 front to back. CBRD runs -1.8 and -1.

I'm surprised that you run -2.5 considering your long commute. Most people say that it'll wear the tires.

[simulatedwood]

There isn't much agreement on the alignment threads other than a difference of 1 front to back. CBRD runs -1.8 and -1.

I'm surprised that you run -2.5 considering your long commute. Most people say that it'll wear the tires.

I showed you my tires, they have nice even tire wear @ 7000 miles most of that a 80 mile a day commute. Id say dont listen to all the interweb hype ;) 2.5 is fine.

[Murlo26]

^I agree, Robispec and some other very trusted people run -2.5/-1.5. That's what is on my car right now. But my biggest factor was trying to get as much as possible to fit my wheels, lol.

[mlomker]

The PLX gauges are a pain. They use a .NET app and it wasn't written to use Admin permissions on Vista but yet they try to write a file to C:\. So the app crashes with the flash memory wiped out. Nice. I spent an hour getting them back to defaults again. I think I still need to upgrade the sensor database on them because they are only half seeing the AFR/Boost sensors.

The NAV is acting like the GPS antenna is unplugged. Need to find a diagram for that.

I'm dropping the car off at Stellar at Noon for the corner balance/alignment. Good equipment and friendly guys, so hopefully they have some skill as well.

[Murlo26]

Wiring/electrical issues FTL!

Have you talked with Primo yet? Just curious how long they will take when they get the MAF flange...Bill@MAP said end of this week for those so I will probably drop that off on Monday or Tuesday to them hoping for something done by next friday. You can PM if you want. Did they ever give a price either?

[mlomker]

Stellar is keeping the car overnight. They gave me an `01 A4 to drive. That's kinda fun since I'd never driven an Audi.

[mlomker]

Picked the car up. It feels very different at -2.5 front, that's for sure.

I noticed that the black coating that Perrin put on my fmic has begun peeling off. Nice. I dropped them an email to see if they can do anything for me. Not sure how good of a fix rattle-can would be if other sections keep flaking off.

[scheides]

Yay for badass alignments! Audis are fun too, but idk...evo is so much more fun!