I came in pretty much middle of the pack (9th out of 16) after everything was factored in. Was running some of the slowest times of anything AWD/4WD. But I beat all but 1 of the 2wd cars (and he wasn't much ahead of me) and enough of the AWD guys ate snowbanks to hurt their overall times.
I could have probably driven it a bit harder, but it needs a little tweaking. Running in 4hi, it did pretty [censored] well, but it pushes like no tomorrow in the slow, tight, uphill corners due to the locked center diff. At higher speeds, it's wonderfully balanced. I can probably work around the issue with driving style improvements and maybe a few suspension tweaks. I definitely need to try left-foot-braking it into corners like that to get it loose before it starts to push, which should let me keep the nose in a little better and power out of it. It does get a little loose on trail braking in the dirt, so I think it'll work.
The verdict is, my educated guess of a suspension works pretty [censored] well! Still could use a couple tweaks to the shock valving, but it took the pounding just fine, reacted predictably, etc. even when I was blasting through every last bit of travel up front at times.
Video is of my last 5 runs (forgot to turn on the camera for my first 3 when we ran the course the other direction). Ignore the squeaky camera mount...
I could have probably driven it a bit harder, but it needs a little tweaking. Running in 4hi, it did pretty [censored] well, but it pushes like no tomorrow in the slow, tight, uphill corners due to the locked center diff. At higher speeds, it's wonderfully balanced. I can probably work around the issue with driving style improvements and maybe a few suspension tweaks. I definitely need to try left-foot-braking it into corners like that to get it loose before it starts to push, which should let me keep the nose in a little better and power out of it. It does get a little loose on trail braking in the dirt, so I think it'll work.
The verdict is, my educated guess of a suspension works pretty [censored] well! Still could use a couple tweaks to the shock valving, but it took the pounding just fine, reacted predictably, etc. even when I was blasting through every last bit of travel up front at times.
Video is of my last 5 runs (forgot to turn on the camera for my first 3 when we ran the course the other direction). Ignore the squeaky camera mount...