CorneliusRox
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I played around with it on my last Audi a ridiculous amount of hours and I could never find a setup I was happy with. I ended up buying a 'lifetime alignment' at a certain firestone where a guy worked that tracked his car at the same events as me sometimes. I'd give him my alignment specs, drop it off, and he'd get to adjust it on the clock and it didn't cost me anything more than the initial ~$200. Totally worth it!@CorneliusRox For what it's worth, when I was occasionally tracking my daily driver years ago (figure 5-6 HPDE/year and 10k-15k summer miles/year), I was able to find one alignment setup that reasonably balanced inner vs outer tread wear, using the same RE-11 tires for summer street + track. Got a surprising amount of miles out per set of those, they really handled the mix of street and track day use well, including the wide temperature range.
I'm sure a purely track-focused alignment could've given me a bit more grip, but I wasn't racing and there were much bigger fish to focus on for improving my lap times! (Like my driving, and also oil temps were an issue on that car on hotter days...)
Prior to that, I would adjust toe before/after tracking, but the 'virtual balljoint' Audi does on the upper control arms made it a real pain to adjust camber on the fly. I wore through a lot of tires. Sad/expensive times. ha ha
Here you go:What mud flaps are those on your car? The ebay ones?
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I love the look of them compared to anything else I've found, but... They needed some cleaning up when I got them. I had to take some time with my dremel to clean up plastic injection molding parting line flashing.
First off, thanks! I'm really happy with how the updates have gone.Wow, that looks amazing! Your posts are __not__ helping me to not lower mine (and we have the same '21 M3P MSM)
I've done just springs, spring + shocks/struts (sourced independently / custom) and full on coilovers, and in the case of just springs, I had a little issue with bottoming out on the bump stops. I'd love to go with just springs, but I'm concerned about, well, "streetability" and the ride getting bouncy on wavy roads.
I am definitely going to swap out these 235/35 Pirelli and go a 255/35 on the OEM Ubers, a little more sidewall / width / wheel protection, looks terrific on your ride - I see they're BFGs, can't quite see the model, assuming those are a g-Force COMP-2 A/S PLUS ?
I thought about a 10-14mm slip on rear spacer with extended shank lugnuts, I've personally never used them - but I also picked up some 5mm spacers months ago and some killer lugnuts, so that might be my jam.
Especially if I get it lowered
Yeah, you and I were in the same boat. I've done wild to mild with suspensions. Last time I did a car up, living in MN at that time, the coilovers were a nightmare to adjust after one winter (KW V2's). I swore I'd never do coilovers on a daily driver car again. Also, I really did coils for the looks, not performance on this car.
I really love these coils though. The ride is a little softer, and I've never gotten into a wavy oscillation with them. I've never hit the bump stops (at least not noticeably) and I've been semi hard on them at times, but definitely not 'track use' hard.
You got it right. BFG G-Force COMP-2 A/S PLUS. I'm really happy with them. Surprisingly cheap for the performance.
They've been keeping me hooked up through this winter and we've gotten a decent amount of ice and snow. When it's warm, they gave me an extra 0.1 lateral G on the parking lot I like to test things out in. That's likely due to the added contact patch and not material compound though.