FSTB

[George Roffe]

Scott_Higashi@necelam.com wrote:

>One thing that the flexy front end without the brace does for you is that
>it mimics a
>softer roll rate, hence less understeer.  However, you don't want to tune your
>handling with chassis flex.  Also, you don't want your alignment changing
>either.
>Ideally, you get the most rigid chassis and tune with springs and fine
>tune with
>swaybars to get max performance.

Amen.

Scott is 100% correct.  You can monkey tune all you like, but you will
never get consistent performance this way.  You want a rigid chassis so the
suspension can do what it is designed to do and so that changes you make do
what they intend to do.

>I'd say get the FSTB and then play with springrates and swaybars to further
>enhance performance.

Couldn't agree more.

>What you should DEFINITELY think about is the lower control arm brace.

Yep.  All you need to do is to closely look at the front suspension design
on the B13, and coupled with the fact that chassis is very flexible, and
you will really understand the need for this.

George Roffe
NISsport
http://www.nissport.com