New Car Adjustments

Big race planned tomorrow. Tonight I was doing more laps and working on different setups for each car. I spent considerable time on them, focusing on individual setups.

We'll start with the easy one:

The Alfa Romeo. Practically Perfect.

After blueprinting the Alfa the other day, I reset it back to the last setup I applied to it, with exception of body float. The front needs a bit more float than the rear does in order to get the body to be even. I hadn't noticed that before, and figured that a quarter turn is a quarter turn. It's not. So now I'm using this:
Body Float 1/2 front - 1/4 rear

Everything else about it...tires, wheels, axles, ride height...remain the same.

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Ford GT40 #8.

The #8 Shell car has really responded to tuneups, and is almost as fast as the Alfa. If it's because of the way it's tuned [doubt it], or maybe it has to do with something about the older chassis...whatever it is, I like it. It handles corners very well for its size, and can lay a fast lap.

Body Float 1/4 front - 1/4 rear

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Recuperating Gulf #11.

I made some headway the other day with the Gulf Ford. Since it's going to be awhile before it gets the desperately needed spacer in order to put the spur gear in the proper place, it is going to have to deal with some things. The spur gear sits right on the edge of the pinion gear, and I don't have a tool to pull it. It makes quite a racket in the corners, but runs fine on the straights. It has a tendency to get loose in the corners as well, and nothing I have done has fixed that, so I attribute that to the spacer problem as well.
I have had some luck getting it to run better, however, and it's back to being competitive. I want it to be good, as it's my wife's car [in a way]. I told her today that it hasn't been doing very well in the races, and she suggested I fix it.
It also suffers from the same condition the Alfa does; uneven body float. It requires a different approach though, as the rear is very loose as it is.

Body Float 1/2 Front - No Float Rear
Light Pod Float - Middle Screws Loose

I know. I said I wasn't going to use any pod float. I have to do something, and I tried it and it seemed to help. I tried it with an overall light pod float, except I really loosened the middle screws. There are six points to a pod, and if it does anything, it's to separate vibrations. So by loosening the middle, maybe I can get some of the vibration away without making the rear so loose.

In order to win the championship, this car will have to win half of the races left. I don't think it'll happen, but it might be able to act as a spoiler. I doubt heavily that I'll get a spacer before this championship series is finished.

Race Tomorrow.