Subiesport Magazine - February/March 2008 - (Page 84)

MOTORSPORTS Even more RWD secrets “These are Team Orange’s top secret recipes for drift setup.” aKEmaSHItE omEDEto (HaPPY nEW YEaR!), SubieSport REaDERS! In this column, I’ll continue my RWD Subaru drift conversion guide from my last column by talking about rear suspension settings. I’ve already covered the front suspension settings and how you can improve the handling in the last column, but truthfully, the rear setting is the most important thing for Imprezas. The reason that the rear setting is so important is because you cannot do much with the camber adjustment of the Impreza’s rear suspension. With the stock camber settings, you will have even tire wear under normal use, but for drifting, you would suffer from lack of traction. first, pay attention to the rear trailing arms and their brackets. You may want to modify the brackets or get ones that were made for the legacy, forester, and other mY Imprezas. If you want more traction for drifting, you would need to lower the trailing arms, and vice versa. If you can obtain the stock brackets from the legacy, the trailing arms will automatically be lowered and you would gain traction. If you have no access to the legacy brackets, you can put a spacer to lower the trailing arms. The team orange GDb Imprezas’ trailing arms are about one centimeter lower than a stock GDb. It is really up to driver preference, so please test different settings and find out what you like. You can change the car’s han84 MARCH 2008 dling a lot by doing this. another option is to get adjustable trailing arms from Cusco. by simply adjusting the length of the trailing arm, you can change the wheelbase of the car. With the longer wheelbase, the car will have more traction and be slower to rotate. likewise, with the shorter wheelbase, the car will have less traction but will respond more quickly. team orange drivers tanaka and Suenaga have wheelbases that are 15 mm longer than stock, and I use one that is just 5 mm longer. by simply changing those two parts, you will have a totally different animal in terms of traction and driving feel. With the front suspension setting I talked about in my previous column and these rear suspension settings, you can make your own RWD drift Impreza. These are team orange’s top secret recipes for drift setup, and I will only share them with Subiesport readers. lastly, let me briefly talk about the D1GP uSa Irwindale event last november. We brought my brand new lancer Evolution to the event. I’ve only used the RWD Evo three times in competition, and we were worried about how it would perform at Irwindale. When I started running on Irwindale’s oval track, I immediately realized the car performed differently than the Impreza. let me explain: With the RWD Im- http://www.endura-tech.com http://www.endura-tech.com

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Subiesport Magazine - February/March 2008

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