5-6" Drop with VW KYB's Converted to Coilovers?

[Advancedynamix]

[TominMO]

^^ :-)

[theastronaut]

Ran my first autocross yesterday, took the Festiva and the Miata. I ran a best of 47.1 in the Festiva and a 49.5 in the Miata. To be fair the Miata has older all season tires and couldn't figure out which end wanted to lose grip first so I never felt confident approaching a corner. It still did decent in the stock Miata class, I ran a full second faster than some of the others. The Festiva just stuck and rolled through the corners with ease. It would ever so slightly hang the tail out under hard trail-braking but never even hinted of swapping ends. The back inside wheel was coming off the ground a little so the shorter MK1 shocks are working. The class I was in had a fast time of 46.9 so I was only two-tenths off the leader. I only got two timed runs in each car, where everybody else had four runs. Had I used my other two runs in the Festiva I could have cut a little more time off and picked up a class win. The fastest guys of the day were running 43.xx seconds... going to need more than 58 horsepower and 400 treadwear tires to get anywhere near that!

One of my fun runs after it was over, not a timed run.