This weekend I ran my car at the Redline time attack event

The track is kind of an anomaly as it's off camber in many turns even has a Karosell type turn and a crown in some of the corners.

I was getting horrible understeer in some of the corners, so bad the car felt like a FWD car in places. These were all tight 2nd gear decreasing radius turns.

Turn in is ok, just mid turn the car would start to plow, I either had to lift to get the car to rotate (which was not very smooth) or just nail the throttle to wheelspin and drift the car around (much more fun)

I tried tire changing tire pressures and shock settings, even removed the wing for the last attack run.

I only have about 2.5 degrees of front camber (max) will much more camber cure this? I will need some sort of camber kit

Should I run a hair of front toe out?

Could a worn bushing be the cause of something like this?

Here is the track layout

 

Do you have a front bar?

 

Need to know more about setup, esp. tire sizes.

 

Comptech Front ADJ bar (On softest setting)

Stock 02 rear bar

225 Ra1 front (16") 245 Ra1 rear

-2.5 camber front, -3.5 camber rear

0.02 front toe in total

0.35 toe in rear total

 

A few notes,

My RA'1s had about 6 events on them before this, I had them flipped and rebalanced prior to Sunday.

They had significant wear already on the outside edges (fronts)

no cording though.

I may have cooked them their first outiing in May, came back in the mid 40's hot.

 

I have had this understeer problem on other tracks and fresher tires, on this track it was more prevelant.

I would just know how I can tune it out.

 

I have the same problem at really tight 2nd gear corners. I think the easiest way to cure that will be running non-staggered tires.

 

I'll make the suggestion that you may be over-driving the car into the turn. My Spec Miata will understeer into a turn (especially a tight one) if you carry too much speed. Once I learned to slow down my corner entry and rotate the car early before getting on the throttle, the understeer greatly diminished. Not only that, because I could get on the throttle sooner, my lap times improved.

 

That's a expensive easy fix.

Does anyone have any alignment suggestions to try?

What about 50 lb/in less front spring?

 

It could be that, or it could be that he just is at limits of his car's grip and now he needs a way to add more grip to the front of the car. 225 front tires are puny, I realize you're on 16" stock wheels, but try upsizing to 235 or 245 if available. More camber also helps.