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We had the first failure this past weekend. The BWR super stiff sway bar managed to break the sway bar mounting tab on the lower control arm. Good news is Tesla has several in stock, they go for $355. We will probably weld in a reinforcement on both control arms over the winter to reduce the...

It really comes down to preference but full stiff in the front makes turn in sharper

Are you getting any VDS error or debug codes?

I'm nitpicking here, but I don't think they are technically a strut because they do not take any lateral suspension loads. To my knowledge a strut shares duty as a suspension member (holding the wheel or hub in the correct position) and spring/damper combo.

The vehicle description is full of options the vehicle doesn't have and no mention of it being salvage, not a good sign o_O

Someone beat you to it in the Tech section Tesla Parts Catalogs now available to the general public

How does someone like that end up with an original Roadster in the first place???

Did you order the side mirrors yet? I came across this thread on the Lotus forum about swapping the mirrors out for the newer style, and the parts are really inexpensive. The look is pretty similar to stock but not as chunky. How To: Exige V6 Side Mirrors - LotusTalk - The Lotus Cars Community

They look nice, and possibly a bit more aerodynamic too

A fellow AutoX competitor made a compilation video of our runs from a few weeks ago. There is some great commentary from the timing booth Some of the video is on a fixed tripod because we shared a rungroup, it's still a good waste of 7 minutes to watch a Roadster go fast though

Event Update: I upped the front dampers to 9 (from 7) over the weekend and feel like it makes the car more responsive on turn in with minimal change to steady state cornering. After driving a friends national championship winning STU class 350Z the previous weekend I feel like having the front...

Thanks! The venue is about an hours drive away, so we charge and drive over in range mode to preserve as much battery as possible. The event this last weekend was a lot cooler (50-60f), so I was able to run the whole day in performance mode. The car really chews through battery in performance...

Do you remember why?

Hopefully someone will come out with some sort of kit that will use common parts from a Model3. They will be dime-a-dozen in junk yards in a few years.

Good thing I decided to hold off on ordering one till yours came in. How does the Tesla mirror come off?