Mod creep

I've been admiring the RE-Amemiya 3 setting adjustable stabilizers for a long time. At the Eightlien day on 8/5 I got a 40% of discount coupon. They are primed to be mine! I also need a new battery. RE-Amemiya has a battery relocation kit that looks sweet and is in use in quite a lot of cars. It replaces the 17kg stock battery back to where the wiper fluid is and exchanges it for 9kg battery. That moves that 9kg behind the front wheels and at the same time makes the car some 8kg lighter. Gotta be a good thing.

Which brings me to wondering about the necessity of these things. They aren't necessary. My suspension is pretty much fine as it is I think. I don't have so much roll as is. One thing the stabilizers would give me might be education in terms to playing more with the cars setting and experiencing the resulting behaviour. Does it under-steer more/less if I up the front a notch. What happens if I change the damping at the same time. In this respect it seems like a good investment.

I need a new battery. Relocating the battery back opens space above the radiator and should provide better cooling as well as the loss of weight up front. It also provides an oil catch tank. Its seems to be well worth it also.

One of the reasons I find myself confused in this respect is I'd kind of like to enter the Party Race. This requires a mostly base 8 or base roadstar if I headed down that road. I guess modding the car for now is no harm as I'm already way down that road. Both of these mods seem pretty sensible to me right now. Its too late to be writing this stuff :-)