Comments for Caserta Racing: STR S2000 Tech

Comment on About by Jon

Jon — Thu, 13 Aug 2015 12:06:03 +0000

Posting here works! What do you need to know?

Comment on About by Scott

Scott — Thu, 13 Aug 2015 11:15:48 +0000

How might someone, like me, contact you directly for more details about your car setup?
I just started co-driving in an AP1 and it needs some work

Comment on STR S2000 Guide: So which mods are most important if on a limited budget? by Jon

Jon — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 23:07:23 +0000

1) A setup like that drives awesome on the street. I would say better than stock.
2) No the camber doesn’t give excessive wear, at least not on my car. Autocrossing you’ll generally wear the outside a little more, daily driving the inside a little more, overall it’ll equal out assuming you’re going both things relatively equally.
3) The 255/40 tires do fit without fender modifications if you’re not lowering the car. If you are lowering the car you have to bend the tabs in the front – there are two tabs that the fender liner clips to that you can literally bend up with some pliers and a piece of rubber or something so you don’t mess up the paint. You can undo it later, it’s not like a full fender roll. The rear doesn’t need anything no matter how low you go if you have the right offset wheels.
4) Yes, STR cars are typically lowered. Again this post is talking about if you’re on a budget which mods to do first.
5) Higher friction brake pads are not needed. Stock S2000 pads are pretty awesome. I used them for a long time. Now I use Ferodo DS2500 just because they’re the same price and I think are slightly better. But stock is all you need for sure.
6) Again we’re talking about how to be close enough to have fun without spending a lot of money, and/or which mods to do first if you’re staging your modifications into buckets. My car has a lot more than this – it’s generally prepped to the limits of the rules now. With this setup if you’re against me or someone else that’s trying for a national championship jacket this year you’re going to have some trouble. In most local regions you’d be able to win, and even in a crazy competitive region like NNJR you could at least be within trophy range or if some of the national guys have a bad day you’d have a shot at the win (for example at the event you’re talking about I was slower than normal…a well driven car with this setup could have beaten us). I ran with a setup similar to this for a while, actually won the NJ ProSolo in 2011 with basically this setup. But now things are a bit more competitive I think.

If you’re looking for a time differential it will depend. For example if it’s a fast course then flashpro will really help an ap2 due to the low top speed in 2nd, but if it’s not that’s not a big deal. Same thing with slow turns with acceleration zones – power mods and flashpro will get a couple tenths there but many autocross courses don’t have them. I definitely think the next thing to do after this list is flashpro for these reasons.

So you’re basically looking at a tenth or two best case and maybe 0.5-1 second worst case depending on course, if I were to make a educated guess. Driver can definitely make that up in many cases.

Comment on STR S2000 Guide: So which mods are most important if on a limited budget? by Jon

Jon — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 22:54:44 +0000

Hi David,

Oh man you’re quoting the event I want to disappear forever. My shocks were not working that event, big bump in the middle of the slalom and I was bottoming out every time. And they were hot lapping us so I had no time to adjust things. It was a mess.

How about you talk about the event right before that where I won by 2 hundredths? Yeah I like that much better :). Or the one a week or two ago where I won by 6 hundredths? Wow I never realized just how competitive NNJR is, I see your point now. Another post to come…

Comment on STR S2000 Guide: So which mods are most important if on a limited budget? by DavidNJ

DavidNJ — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 22:34:49 +0000

Followup…how competitive would this setup be? In an event last year there 9 STR cars, the top 3 (you finished 3rd) where within .025 seconds of each other. Less than 1 second separated the top 5 and less than 2 seconds the top 7.

Comment on STR S2000 Guide: So which mods are most important if on a limited budget? by DavidNJ

DavidNJ — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 22:27:48 +0000

A few questions:

1) How does that setup drive and ride like on the street?
2) Does the camber lead to excessive tire wear on the street?
3) Do the 255/40 tires fit without fender modifications?
4) This setup is at the stock ride height (really +0.3″ if 255/40 tires are used). Are STR cars typically lowered?
5) A higher friction brake pads needed? Are the stock pads up to matching the huge increase in grip from 200TW 255 front tires?
6) This setup uses the stock shocks and springs? Is this adequate? Aren’t you running a Penske 8300 shock/spring package?

Thanks,

David

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