Sunday, March 6, 2016

Race Ready for 2016

We completed the final work to get Lupa race ready for the season today. SJF Performance's newer Hunter HawkEye alignment machine was installed and calibrated yesterday so it was time to head over and get Lupa aligned.

First alignment in 2016 - SJF Performance - 3/6/2016
Last year when we aligned her, we had all sorts of problems trying to hit my desired alignment targets. I suspected it was due to some issue with the shocks and sure enough with the fresh shocks in place, we had no such issues anymore.

First alignment in 2016 - SJF Performance - 3/6/2016
Maxing out the front camber, SJF was able to get -3.3 degrees of camber with 0 toe up front. Last year, I ran -2.4 degree in the rear which I felt was too much but the super low ride height made it impossible to get it lower. This year, with a slightly higher ride height, we were able to dial it back down to -2.1 to get better forward traction. To balance this out, I also opted to increase rear toe in from 1/16" (0.06) to 1/8" (0.12) total. SJF was also able to max out the front caster again with a perfectly matched wheel based left and right.

Alignment perfect - SJF Performance - 3/6/2016

Wheelbase - SJF Performance - 3/6/2016

To finish it all off, we also flushed and replaced the engine, transmission and diff fluids. It's now 2 weeks left before the first test event of the year and she's at 100% ready for me to fine tune the suspension settings now that I know everything is fully up to snuff.

Fluid change time - SJF Performance - 3/6/2016