we done a little test at a race meeting my car was running the long rear shock mod and my good friend and long time racing buddy ran his as standard what was intresting as the day went on we changed his car slowley into mine we already had the same roll centres and shock pistons oils springs toe caster camber motor etc what i am getting at towards the end of the day from a car that was nearly 1.5sec alap slower down to only a 10th slower by the end of the day im not saying its a must do mod and i do believe it does depend on race track and driving style but certanly for myself it seems to work.
on a simular sinario a rear shcok mod was done for the corally rdx phi tc i also tried this when it was first seen for a simular reason to get more forward traction however i found this to make the car a little unpredictable as it genrated a pendulm effect when of throttle and genraly upset the overal balance of the car i aprectiate that a tc is a compleatle diffrent form of racing than off road but the setups will work across the board in very simular situations i ended up going back to the orignal shock setup and that car just felt better and faster to me and on the race track it was.
stu rand
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