Thanks! For the Intrax, it's hard to tell yet. It's obviously better than my previous ST X, but I'm yet to learn how to set it up. It has 40 settings in the front and 20 in the back, "0" being the hardest. The baseline setting is -18/-4 front/rear. Though they've admitted they've probably missed "-1" for the rear in the document :) With the baseline setting it drifts in every corner. For the next stint I set rear to -6 and got a bit faster. For the 3rd stint I made rear a bit more softer to -8 and also got a bit faster. I think it's still not optimal settings, though even like that I was more than a second faster than with ST X. I think (and hope :) ) I'll be faster once I find settings that give enough confidence to go full throttle to Shievlak. I don't recall if I've visited the Nordschleife with the new diff, though I only have 25 laps of experience, gearing is surely not the thing that slows me down there, so hard to comment on that yet.
@@gogaskrank it's 14kg front / 7.5kg rear (true coilover setup). At this point I'm not sure what's the optimal gearing for this car even for Zandvoort. With the current gearing and 7450 redline I get uncomfortably close to the readline in the 3rd gear in some turns (e.g. the first right after pitlane exit). On the other hand, I plan to switch over to semi-slicks on 17" wheels, which will probably result in higher speeds, so I'll have to upshift to 4th anyways. Also, with 17" tires I can go with 235/45/17 to keep the same diameter, or can go with 235/40/17 which would make the effective gear rate even shorter. And once I pass the point where I must upshift to 4th, maybe I can go with even more shorter diff that will probably save me some downshifts from 4th to 3rd in faster corners? Don't know yet.
Nice driving! How do you like the Intrax suspension? And did you try the shorter gearing on the Nordschleife as well?
Thanks! For the Intrax, it's hard to tell yet. It's obviously better than my previous ST X, but I'm yet to learn how to set it up. It has 40 settings in the front and 20 in the back, "0" being the hardest. The baseline setting is -18/-4 front/rear. Though they've admitted they've probably missed "-1" for the rear in the document :) With the baseline setting it drifts in every corner. For the next stint I set rear to -6 and got a bit faster. For the 3rd stint I made rear a bit more softer to -8 and also got a bit faster. I think it's still not optimal settings, though even like that I was more than a second faster than with ST X. I think (and hope :) ) I'll be faster once I find settings that give enough confidence to go full throttle to Shievlak. I don't recall if I've visited the Nordschleife with the new diff, though I only have 25 laps of experience, gearing is surely not the thing that slows me down there, so hard to comment on that yet.
Sounds good, thanks for the detailed answer. Do you know your spring rates? For the diff I'm still undecided between 3.64 and 3.73.
@@gogaskrank it's 14kg front / 7.5kg rear (true coilover setup). At this point I'm not sure what's the optimal gearing for this car even for Zandvoort. With the current gearing and 7450 redline I get uncomfortably close to the readline in the 3rd gear in some turns (e.g. the first right after pitlane exit). On the other hand, I plan to switch over to semi-slicks on 17" wheels, which will probably result in higher speeds, so I'll have to upshift to 4th anyways. Also, with 17" tires I can go with 235/45/17 to keep the same diameter, or can go with 235/40/17 which would make the effective gear rate even shorter. And once I pass the point where I must upshift to 4th, maybe I can go with even more shorter diff that will probably save me some downshifts from 4th to 3rd in faster corners? Don't know yet.