Let's be completely honest here. I'm a young man with many years and I decided 2 years ago, before I die, I'd like to see if I enjoy now what I thought I wanted to do, but couldn't, when I was a sprout. I started the wrong way. I went to a small track and went pretty fast for a stock car. Then I put on a pulley, CAI, and other stuff and managed the same time as stock. Then I lowered the car and adjusted and flailed in the dark. Same times. Then I went to a driving school. Times dropped dramatically. I began to learn the car, what it could do and not do. Not what I believed it could or couldn't do. Returned some things to stock and kept going faster. A second driving school and now I'm beating almost everyone. (in my class) I sometimes wonder what my times would be if I went all the way back to stock. The SRT engineers did a good job with this car to start with and it's easier to mess it up than make it better. I know for a fact that my car is still faster than its driver. At the moment the limiting factor IMO is not knowing the bump steer, front and rear, and insufficient adjustment range for camber. The car rolls more than I like but I've seen cars that roll more and still go fast. What does all this mean? I was clueless 2 years ago when I started enrolling in track days. I learned that the driver mod was worth more than gazillion HP. Now I have a feel for the car and what will make it faster. Keeping the tires happy is worth so much more then HP and that's what I'm looking to do. I believe that part of the problem is running a tire that is too wide for the front rim. My rules are liberal so I'm going to the widest rim possible with a tire relatively narrow for it's width. The tire should be supported much better. Depending on how it works or doesn't work, I'll get a Kmac camber kit for the front which can adjust up to -3º of camber on. I've seen cars with skinny tires go blazingly fast. But only because they were completely adjustable and adjusted correctly. Having a happy tire is the real deal. Ignorance is frustrating, I'm no expert, I'm a master of the obvious.

Les