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The first thing I did was go down on front spring since the car was so responsive and could use a little more mid corner steering. That helped. Next I wanted to address how upset the car was getting on bumps now that there was traction—when traction was low, the car just slid over the bumps. For that I simply went down a half weight front and rear on shock oil, and that really helped just the over all feel of the car through bumpy sections. I really had the oils a bit heavy because we run on a very large jump outdoor track and I wanted the damping to be a bit on the thick side, but it was just too thick for the bumps. At this point I felt the car had markedly improved, so I started focusing on perhaps making the rear a little loose just when the track started drying out, so I moved the shocks out on the back tower to the 3rd hole from the inside instead of the 2nd hole. It actually felt pretty good when the track was dry. Then we watered and the traction was high again... and of course the car felt a bit twitchy again (far less than originally) when we got back on it, so I worked on that a bit again while the opportunity presented itself. First I tried laying the front shocks down more, which helped, and then I went to the longer camber link up front, and that REALLY helped, but the car felt a bit dead in the front and didn't respond to steering inputs until deeper in the corner. I stood the shocks back up and that was the sweet spot of response and smoothness over bumps and hard corner entry. I think the longer camber link really tamed down the camber gain and what felt like "extreme bump steer" that the car had, although it was not actual bump steer, it just behaved like that because the front tire will now break contact patch easier when pushed to the extreme, something that I really like in general, and it behaves much more like a modern car's camber gain in general (compared it to my b5m). I realize this changed the front roll center after the car started rolling, but the response was good, and the new low speed steering was a nice gift as well. The very last thing I did was just lay the rear shocks back down to the #2 hole from the inside because the moist sticky track was making the rear feel far too direct and "light switchey" for rotation—it was hard stuck and would then break free only after you really pitched it into a corner, and when it was hard stuck, it was very direct and not forgiving. Needless to say, standing the shocks up only worked when it was dry and was not worth the way it felt when the track was moist.
So... that's the challenge when you race on tracks like mine—at times its low traction, and at other times, it's high traction, and you really just have to have your car setup to handle both as well as possible, and that's fine since that's just a good all around setup.
Here's where I'm at now. I had a whole day of running with friends and having others try the car and I think it's in a good place now. The only thing in the back of my mind is that I'm at the limit of the #2 pistons in the rear—if I want to go lighter on static damping, or thicker on static damping without more pack for the bumps, I really will have to bust out the #1 piston and a thicker oil... but if I can use the #2, I'm going to, because it feels right. I might just get some 22.5 oil... which is totally strange to me
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