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Originally Posted by The Radium King
does it make sense to detune the front because you haven't properly tuned the rear? i never understood that approach. it's like de-powering the car instead of upgrading the brakes to make it stop better. to all their own i guess.
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I'm not sure what you mean by "de-tuning" the front. If anything, going back to the softer front bar increased the grip in the front, which I wouldn't call "detuning". If I detuned anything, it was the rear when I put the Cayman bar on the car.
The change I made only affected the behavior of the car on corner entry when lifting off of the throttle, and it wasn't that a large of a change. Steady state cornering felt almost identical to the car before I made the bar change. I would have been happy with the change to the stiffer front bar if the tracks I ran only had fast sweepers with fast entries to the turns.
We all know that sway bars are for tuning the balance of the car. The change I made wasn't like having a car that plows with a large amount of understeer, so you put a stiff rear bar on the car. That takes grip away from the car at the rear, but balances the cornering behavior of the car at the expense of total grip. The tuning that I did made a subtle change in the behavior of the car in a specific cornering situation. I'm happy that we have cars that are relatively responsive to subtle changes in suspension tuning.
Keep in mind that I primarily use my car for street driving, so it isn't set up for ultimate track performance. I'd be taking a different approach to the suspension if the car was going to be a track rat. Because of that, I'm mixing and matching parts from different Porsche suspension packages. I have the ROW M030 springs and shocks, so I have tried a rear Cayman bar, which from what I understand is close to a M030 rear bar. Ideally, I should get a rear M030 bar and put it one the car, and then put the M030 front bar back on the car. But I'm pretty happy with the car as it sits now. Plus I'm cheap and slightly lazy.
