Update: Bilstein B6's for autocross.
All 3 events Solostorm video. (Results at the bottom. Don't trust the overlays, they're not synced and time is not accurate): https://youtu.be/_nltZAU7DXU?is=WxRqjJ3Lg13CzuXh
All 3 events Helmet cam video. (Sorry for poor audio, looking into making that sound better (SjCam C110+)):
https://youtu.be/pznl6bPvxEk?is=bht4hgTYPwOr7d-2
So I finally got the shocks on, and I've done three events on them as of now. One was on a extremely smooth asphalt lot, the other two events were at the same location I was having issues with. It's a completely different car. It feels like a precision tool now. Not a boat that's rolling and leaning into turns. Just even driving around town into the events, it's a completely new car. I'm not bracing myself for railroad tracks or any slight deviations in the road.
Things I've noticed at the 2-day event at I was having issues with: I didn't even notice there was bumps in the pavement. Instead of feeling the car lean the whole time through the turns, I would feel the initial force of the turn and the car would immediately be back to leveled out letting me throw the Genesis around more. I did NOT hit the same patch that sent me airborne, we went around it these 2 days. But all the rough patches that sounded like the car crashing and losing grip, the shocks handled them no problem since we went back over the areas twice now.
A good way to describe what I felt is everything is now sharper. Through slaloms, it didn't feel sluggish. There was no period where I had of wait for the car to finish reacting to the initial cone before I can start the next cone in the slalom. It almost allowed me to think of it as a straight line. Same thing when it came to the sweeping turns and offsets. The car went exactly where I wanted it placed, and was ready for what is next when I needed it. No lean or waiting for the car to set before giving it another task.
Looking at a diagnosis of my old shocks, I found out I am terrible at maintenance. They were completely done. When I was pulling them out of the car, my bump stops were shoved up into the top next the hats in the front. And from what I remember the rears we were able to almost compress the shock and pull it out with little to no effort. It didn't even fight us to come out. These should have been changed a long time ago, I for the most part was just racing on the springs. That's what was beating the car up and me up so badly. I'm just extremely stubborn and didn't listen to anybody apparently lol. I also had to cut my rotors and get new pads since I glazed them up some time after sebring over 2 years ago now. Night and day difference too. Just digging the hole deeper supporting I'm terrible with maintenance lol.
Can't find results page for 1st video.
34.252 RAW time. 3rd/97 for PAX
2nd and 3rd video results page:
36.956 RAW time. 1st/89 for PAX
33.946 RAW time. 1st/75 for PAX
https://autocross.cfrscca.org/2026-events-results/
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