Got an email for head gasket guy, they are in production! I guess the issue was he wasn't sure how to do the sealant silk screening but he came up with something and gaskets are a go!
I've been playing around a little with and online program, Vsusp....the best I can tell the 308 suspension was always a hot mess. Up front looks fine at rest
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But it got super soft spring so hard brake and you have this
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Then try to throw it into a corner and WFT
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This basically says its going to want to plow like a mother because the rear roll center is up near 4" so basically all the corning load is on the outer front tire.....and I recall my first autoX with the car total stock there was no braking into the corner allowed.
The car at its current ride height I have this
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the same as stock with brakes, hot mess
Adjusting the bolt-on lower A-arm mounts frame mounts up about 16mm (there is a kit available from super performance) gets it here
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then brakes with about 60% anti-dive also baked into the lower A-arm mounts and roll controlled with stiffer springs and swat bar gets it here.
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not great but okish.
In the rear it starts with a roll center up at 103mm, so when its lowered that actually makes the roll center much more rational
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then when you brake (with anti-squat/lift) and corner nothing very bad happens
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I want to play around a little more before I start cutting, particularly to see what can be done about the front roll center migration (moving right/left in corners) but I think its workable as is and I could very skip the rear anti squat and not be too bad.
I did get the engine kind of slapped together so I can set it in for a weight....hopefully this week.