Thanks for the tips. I like to sneak up on learning the limits of a car. Miss without knowing what a car can do can lead to bad decisions and a slower, but faster, feeling car. Been there done that and don't want to do it again ☺
I stress that to newer autocrossers. Learn what your car can do and improve on your skills before throwing buckets of money at the car. I ran a couple of years in stock trim before upgrading.
A proper alignment is priority 1. Other than full camber (what can I expect?) Do I leave everything else stock?
I'm going to kill the stock tires before I do any upgrades. Any suggestions on pressures?
I got the 10 speed (bad knee) and I like it better as a daily driver. So, sort mode or track? Let the car shift or manual shift?
The rear has a bit of camber in from the factory. Just get everything cleaned up. Nothing was in spec when I first aligned mine. Ford did a really bad job of aligning at the factory. You can get 2 degrees with camber bolts.
Go with what you feel as far as pressure. I tried the "mark the sides with chalk" and tried to determine if they rolled over, but I could never get the hang of reading the results. I ran my P-0s at about 30 front and 32 in the rear.
Nannies on the first few runs until you get used to it, then start turning them off as you become familiar. I run mine in track mode. (again I have a base, so its either on, track or all off)
Shift into 2nd as soon as you can on the run and leave it there, unless you hit the limiter ... I don't know how "tall" the automatics gear is so it may need to go to 3rd, but shift manually and for gads sakes, don't shift in the middle of an element!
