improving the handling
05-14-2018, 02:57 AM
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improving the handling
My '13 P30 sedan has been a great canyon carver so far. Better than I'd expected really. I'd kinda like to fine-tune the handling a bit though. After upgrading the tires, pads and fluid where's the best place to focus? I'm on stock suspension, wheels & rotors.
05-14-2018, 06:25 AM
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05-14-2018, 08:54 AM
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Keep us posted on your progress if you actually do anything to improve things
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05-14-2018, 11:02 AM
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Lowering your center of gravity a bit will help with handling. Perhaps lowering the car on quality set of coil overs will help greatly in this department.
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05-14-2018, 11:43 AM
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The first and easiest things to do are wider tires, lowering springs and swaybars. After that you might start looking at coilovers, camber plates, adjustable endlinks, underbody braces and stiffer suspension/subframe bushings. If you want to go further there are spherical bearings, subframe collars and wider wheels and fenders. All depends on what you’re looking to accomplish and how much you want to spend.
05-14-2018, 02:59 PM
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Thanks guys...and Phil. The car just hit 30K miles. I'm going to keep the factory suspension for now. I've had KW3's on other cars before and love the quality of their products but those old cars needed an upgrade. The factory setup on this car is actually pretty good. It's definitely a heavy car but it's still tight and predictable in tighter turns. I'm coming off 10 years of nose-heavy AWD cars so it's been fun to go back to RWD again. So much more feedback in the steering wheel. I'm already running new 275's in the back and new-ish 255's up front. Stiffer sway bars might be a good place to start looking.
05-16-2018, 03:16 AM
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Unfortunately I can't chime in with any advice... but I did notice you're located in Livermore (I'm located in San Ramon)! What are some good roads to drive on? I've only driven on Highlands Rd and was curious to know where you go to have a bit of fun. The only other place I could think of off the top of my head would be Mines Rd, but the road was closed when I tried driving on it early April (I intended to do Hwy 130 to Mines Rd). If you've never driven on Hwy 130, I'd highly recommend it. That road is so much fun, and it's a two lane, two way road the whole way so there's no need to worry about oncoming cars.
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05-19-2018, 09:50 PM
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Unfortunately I can't chime in with any advice... but I did notice you're located in Livermore (I'm located in San Ramon)! What are some good roads to drive on? I've only driven on Highlands Rd and was curious to know where you go to have a bit of fun. The only other place I could think of off the top of my head would be Mines Rd, but the road was closed when I tried driving on it early April (I intended to do Hwy 130 to Mines Rd). If you've never driven on Hwy 130, I'd highly recommend it. That road is so much fun, and it's a two lane, two way road the whole way so there's no need to worry about oncoming cars.
Highway 130
Mines Road
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