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Old 05-04-08, 05:40 PM   #36
dclee
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Originally Posted by ShottsUZJ100 View Post
I'm not disputing your results and am enthused you are happy. That said, I cannot imagine a "night and day" difference. I can see a slight improvement maybe?

In your opinion. It's all relative. To some who are very in tune to the performance of their machinery, what might seem a slight change to some is in fact a very significant change to them.

edit: I only went up 1" on my 100. To me, that slight change made a very significant alteration to the handling of the vehicle at highway speeds. I was very much aware of it. But my sensibilities might come from years of driving high performance Mercs and Bimmers. Mercedes steering is very dead, but the design purpose is stability at 200 kph on the autobahn, where a sneeze can launch you off the road. BMW sets up their steering very differently, which is part of the reason they have that near telepathic steering feeling. Because of their caster settings. Slight differences that translate to very different real-world results.


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