Blueridge Parkway + Ksports

[mp3moose]

What an awesome day for a spirited drive in the mountains! I just hit 150 miles of curving bliss on my favorite road and the k sports and I loved it!

I'll get some pics up as soon as I get them off my phone.

You should all make the pilgramige out to skyline/blueridge for a good run.

On a side note, I found the best set up was the fronts all the way hard and the rears at all the way soft. Also, I had some pretty hardcore brake fade today after an hour of driving. I had to pull off and let them recoop. Looks like I need a big brake kit.

 

[noclue119]

What an awesome day for a spirited drive in the mountains! I just hit 150 miles of curving bliss on my favorite road and the k sports and I loved it!

I'll get some pics up as soon as I get them off my phone.

You should all make the pilgramige out to skyline/blueridge for a good run.

On a side note, I found the best set up was the fronts all the way hard and the rears at all the way soft. Also, I had some pretty hardcore brake fade today after an hour of driving. I had to pull off and let them recoop. Looks like I need a big brake kit.

Just so that u know. If u get caught its not a ticket u get, its federal pound me in the ass jail.

I talked to a few bikers out there who got caught doing 25 over the speed limit.

 

[mp3moose]

well, its 45 all the way and thats pretty darn quick most of the twisties. I probably average around 50-55.

 

[ForesterES]

I've had plenty of fun on the southern end of the Blue Ridge Parkway without ever breaking the speed limit. It's a great road!

 

[noclue119]

well, its 45 all the way and thats pretty darn quick most of the twisties. I probably average around 50-55.

Ya i was doing 70 and someone warned me of it

 

[dmitrik4]

got pics?

the BRP is AWESOME. it's a great drive, both for the curves and the scenery. we took it for a while on the way to Tail of the Dragon one year. and yeah...you don't have to be going very fast to have a good time.

i got some fade on some downhill parts, keeping up w/ the WRXs. that's a spooky feeling.

 

[mazdaowner123]

Nice choice, Kyle. I took the BRP home from school one time and it was awesome. Great photo spots and scenery, and nice curving road. With the 45 MPH speed limit you can just glide through the turns and not speed and have a good time. I did see a ranger radaring on my trip though.

Sorry it didn't work out to meet up, but we'll definitely get a meet together before the semester's over.

~brian

 

[daedalus]

i havent actually messed around with the KSPORT settings yet. What did you feel was the big difference having the front hard and the rear soft? More acute turn in, but offset by engine weight to counter out the huge difference?

I've had mine on soft/soft since day 1.

 

[TheMAN]

having the fronts all the way stiff and the rears soft promotes understeer due to the fact that weight transfer to the front tires are reduced.... in this situation, the front tires do not have sufficient load on them to help cornering grip

damper settings are used to help control spring/suspension movement, but depending on them *fully* for tuning purposes is wrong... well designed suspensions should have properly selected spring rates to help control weight transfer as well as accounting for the car's weight bias... finally, proper dampening is used to control the springs to prevent unwanted motions, such as excessive rebound (the boat ride feel), excessive bound (bottoming out and overloading the tire because of the infinite spring rate phenominon), road irregularities, compensate for tire wear/traction, etc... in otherwords, you can use them to fine tune to your driving style, your tires, and the handling characteristics (neutral, oversteer, understeer, etc)... in the end though, you are still limited by what your spring rates are and your suspension geometry

suspension tuning is hard to explain and is such a broad topic that it's better explained in specifically written articles/books about them... there's also different tuning methodologies which adds to the confusion... suspension tuning is ALWAYS a compromise to the needs of the situation, so there's no "perfect" suspension

 

[MiaTurbo]

yeah, it is a national park, so be careful..

 

[mp3moose]

Pics:

Camera phone pwns me.

 

[Pirana]

Man Edwin that was deep (bow)

 

[mp3moose]

having the fronts all the way stiff and the rears soft promotes understeer due to the fact that weight transfer to the front tires are reduced.... in this situation, the front tires do not have sufficient load on them to help cornering grip

damper settings are used to help control spring/suspension movement, but depending on them *fully* for tuning purposes is wrong... well designed suspensions should have properly selected spring rates to help control weight transfer as well as accounting for the car's weight bias... finally, proper dampening is used to control the springs to prevent unwanted motions, such as excessive rebound (the boat ride feel), excessive bound (bottoming out and overloading the tire because of the infinite spring rate phenominon), road irregularities, compensate for tire wear/traction, etc... in otherwords, you can use them to fine tune to your driving style, your tires, and the handling characteristics (neutral, oversteer, understeer, etc)... in the end though, you are still limited by what your spring rates are and your suspension geometry

suspension tuning is hard to explain and is such a broad topic that it's better explained in specifically written articles/books about them... there's also different tuning methodologies which adds to the confusion... suspension tuning is ALWAYS a compromise to the needs of the situation, so there's no "perfect" suspension

Interesting....
This my first experience with suspension tunning, but can you elaborate the differrent methodologies? How do the different schools of thought contradict each other?

 

[Lt. Dan]

I'm actually going to move this. It's not motorsports related, so it doesn't belong here.

Dan