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Postby Babalouie » Thu Jan 19, 2006 10:32 am

pcmx5 wrote:Please share your experiences re settings as you experiment!

Peter.


I've got the EDFC electric in-cabin thingy so I play with the settings all the time.

For track (Wakefield anyway) I find that 2F/5R was a good balance. I know that on the road a couple of clicks doesn't seem like much but on the track one click does seem to be quite noticeable. This is also my fast-road setting. For street I either use 8F/8R or I go 16F/16R (full soft) if it's bumpy.

The track/fast-road setting seems to be quite washy on the turn in unless you are really up it and come into the corner hard on the brakes. I've had it on the hard-setting a few times and when you just cruise into a tight corner at a reasonable pace it does have a surprising understeer.

I know that the 2F/5R setting is too stiff for the Putty Rd, which is very fast and bumpy, so for roads like that I go back down to 8/8.
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Postby Ted » Fri Jan 20, 2006 2:09 pm

They certainly do settle down a bit after a thousand kms or so, but I haven't measured the heights again on mine.

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Postby Abyss » Fri Jan 20, 2006 5:59 pm

What is the EDFC worth?
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Postby Babalouie » Fri Jan 20, 2006 6:35 pm

Abyss wrote:What is the EDFC worth?


I think it was $400 extra...this was in Japan tho. Not sure what they'd retail for locally.
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