Awesome! The front end is indeed REALLY a weak point, once you get the rear sorted... Getting the rear welded to the pavement is a great feeling on the RC. Once you get some springs and heavier fork oil in there, you'll REALLY start ripping around!Funny you should say that...
So never having had a shock with ride-height adjustment, I was not aware that they come shipped in the lowest position. Then I was not equipped with two giant 1 1/8 inch wrenches to adjust it when I started dragging the exhaust on the ground on the first lap. Keep in mind my exhaust is cut down so you'll definitely do this if you don't set the ride height higher. Luckily, this track is 10 minutes from Lowes so that got rectified but I showed up late to start with and getting to the point of figuring that out took me to lunch time. Lesson learned.
First adjustment was still too low as the steering was slow and then I overshot it and the back end was coming up but I think I finally arrived at a good place. In hindsight, I would've set it to the same as the stock shock and gone from there. I set sag according to the included instructions. I set rebound kind of in the middle and was on compression 4. There's a couple dips in the track where I drag toe, so I might try that stiffer or alternatively move the rearsets up.
The new shock is god damn amazing. It completely transforms the handling. It's soooo much better damped and precise. The downside is it exposes the limitations of the front. I will say the front is nowhere near as limiting as the back though. The new gearing works well at Pueblo and I'm not hitting the rev limiter.
I got in three sessions after lunch with the new shock and steadily dropped time, but I did a bunch of active shit yesterday and was too worn out to get in the last session. I got down to 1:48.504 in the third session and the track record for the class at this track is 1:48.289 so I knew I'd be trying to beat it and was in no condition to keep riding. The front end still needs work and I want to play around with various setting anyways so there will be other days.
Couple pics that I took of a local racer trying it out...
Any chance of working. With race tech/JRI to get a revalaing kit for the front? I'm sure a lot of people would appreciate it.Awesome! The front end is indeed REALLY a weak point, once you get the rear sorted... Getting the rear welded to the pavement is a great feeling on the RC. Once you get some springs and heavier fork oil in there, you'll REALLY start ripping around!
I've been trying... believe me! Trying to get things sorted with RaceTech for a dealer agreement so that I can put together a full suspension package has been the goal. I started the process when I got the R6 shock swap developed. The intent was so I could buy larger quantities of the parts needed at a dealer price... but getting the dealer agreement all sorted with them is now at something like two months in and has been... frustrating. I need to try talking to them again tomorrow.
We finally got a warm week in so I got a few things done. First was getting the latest insurance pick up back together:
Also, since the rules changed for next year, I picked up a G2 quick turn throttle. Install was extremely straightforward.
Lastly, I decided it'd be better in carbon (fiberglass for sale here)
