Miata Suspension Testing at the Track! (FM Live)
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- This week on FM Live, we wanted to show you a little behind the scenes peek at the suspension testing we do at Flyin' Miata. Keith is at our local track, Grand Junction Motor Speedway, to show you some of the process and discuss what we look for in our Miata suspension.
Original live video recorded 10-29-20 on location at Grand Junction Motor Speedway. Join us on Facebook every Thursday at 2:00 PM Mountain Time for new live content!
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Please keep rambling about travel!!!
The entire performance industry is coveting stance garbage
Forever shooting myself in the foot for getting "normal travel" Ohlins on my ND instead of the Foxx's... Will forever listen to Flyin' Miata/Keith going forward.
I got the fox on my nb and I love it almost went with the ohlins but decided to support local and FM did a great job educating me on the decision
Just ordered my vmaxx sport for my NB miata! Can't wait to see the difference in feel.
Did they feel comfortable over potholes or did the whole car still shake
@1Landyacht very comfy respectively
I live near castle rock and was wondering what tracks are a couple hours away? I've looked online and could not find any.
High Plains Raceway and Pikes Peak International Raceway are the two most likely. The former is quite accessible.
@@FlyinMiataVideo Thanks! I'm definitely planning on buying your koni 2.5 suspension kit for my car. I'm blown away by how much you produce for these cars
Newbe suspension follow up question to GT-Alex and your response. You have to start somewhere so for me, it will probably be full soft all the way around and then work up in small adjustments. Based on the previous reply, it sounds like you don't necessarily set front and rear at the same dampening but I have to start somewhere and move forward so is that a good approach of making the same adjustment all around until you find where one end or the other is either feeling good or "doing a thing" that needs more attention? 06-NC
Start with the same adjustments at both ends and pay attention. Once you get a better feel for how the adjustments affect the car, you will start to feel if one end is working better than the other. Then you can start to adjust just one end to get what you want. And as always, experiment!
When purchasing a set of shocks do you send recommendations on how to likely best set up? mid adjustment front, hard in rear , all 4 same at,,,,, Etc?
We do with kits that include springs. For just shocks, it depends on what kind of springs you have on them.
Do they still allow you to do testing at GJMS?
We have a very good relationship with the track.
can u make a video on the TPS upgrade kit for NA6?
Do you want an install video or a product information video?
@@FlyinMiataVideo an install video would be perfect 🙏
25:05 bookending?
Bracketing was the word he was looking for. The joys of live video.
When fine tuning damping, how do you go with the adjustments ? You said you start from soft and work your way up, I assume you're adjusting both ends at the same time, but then, when do you start trying to perfect front and rear individually ? Do you start with the front first ? Do you setup ride height rake before or after ?
The rest of the suspension (ride height, cornerweight, rake, etc) should be set up ahead of time if they're going to be factors in the sort of testing you're doing. They weren't for this session.
We often adjust both ends separately based on how the car feels. You can tell when one end has "come into focus" before the other. It's also possible for an experienced test driver to separate front and rear behavior to some extent. It's not a matter of front and then the rear, it's more like "the rear is pretty good but the front is (doing a thing)".
@@FlyinMiataVideo Thanks for the answer !
@@FlyinMiataVideo with a track like grand junction, would you set up left and right side dampening the same or bias depending on direction you are going on the track cw vs ccw
Interesting! Thank You!!!
Really curious what you did to reduce inner rear wheel spin out of a corner. Seems like a common na miata issue
Soften or remove the rear bar
@@Brandeino Thx. Soften did the trick
Any idea when the NA stainless exhaust will be restocked
Drop our customer support team an email at support@flyinmiata.com. They should be able to help give you more information on inventory and customer service questions. Thanks!
How do the sway bars come into play when testing?
That depends on what you're trying to test. In this case, I was mostly interesting in how the shocks dealt with various upsets and focusing on the vertical behavior so sway bars were not a significant factor and were best kept at a constant. If we were working on cornering behavior and trying to tune spring rates, sway bars would have a bigger effect.