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Originally Posted by Norm Peterson
Two items come to mind. I'm thinking in terms of percent critical damping, which cannot be optimized simultaneously for best ride and best grip.
1) If you leave the rest of the suspension and the wheel/tire package alone, you're stuck with whatever transient handling was dialed into the calibration. Not that the average HPDE driver has much chance of improving it even if GM granted access to the programming or mapping.
2) If you modify anything else in the suspension or move up to a more serious wheel/tire package, would the OE MRC tuning have enough self-adjusting capability built into it to accommodate such changes?
The chart below is just for illustration. Chances are that the two minimum points for a 6th gen Camaro will be somewhat different, but the general idea that best ride needs the damping to be less than that for best grip should still hold true.
Norm |
I was under the impression that MRC was based on relative position of the shocks (in its current iteration, at least) meaning that adjusting the spring rates at any corner of the system would have minimal impact on the MRC system (however changing the length of the springs in the system will throw it off e.g. lowering...or lifting...if thats your thing....)