It depends on how hard you are going to push the car. Chances are it won't matter. For any of these adjustments to actually be effective most of the time you are near the limits of grip and go over them, then the car behaves a certain way. No DE instructor will let you get remotely close to that if you are a novice. If it were my car, I would change the front to full stiff. I would also not stay with OEM alignment settings, they are designed for tire longevity not performance. That is probably where you will see the most difference and the NSX on bad alignment settings is not a well-behaving car. The S drives are also not great, they are OK at best, there are tires that grip far better. Tire pressures should be 36-38 HOT, so start at 32-32 cold... not OEM pressures. I am not telling you to change tires, I think for a first event they are fine but eventually there are better tires and you may feel that even on spirited street driving. Going full stiff front and keeping the rear soft will make the car want to understeer more and that is safer. In your case I would align to 8.5-9 or higher caster, -0.5 degrees front and -1.5 degrees rear camber, 2mm toe out front and 4-5mm toe in rear. I run more aggressive settings, stuntman has a good post on this here:
http://www.nsxprime.com/forum/showt...or-track-use?p=1407107&viewfull=1#post1407107Speaking from personal experience: I started my track experience at Watkins Glen which is a fast track. You can learn how to drive a track fast with good lines but you won't really learn car control, which is a 7-8 on a difficulty scale in an NSX versus a 4-5 on most sports cars because of its high grip levels and it being tough to control when that is lost. If you are learning car control on the track, you are risking going into a wall. You need to become comfortable with what this car does once all grip is lost with YOUR setup. When you know the limits and how to control it, you will automatically be much faster on the track. Becoming fast for a beginner has a lot to do with losing fear... the car's limits are higher than most people realize. Mainly, you learn on the track not to do something stupid. You start off by not asking the tires to turn and brake at the same time or not to lift mid-turn. You learn to have smooth inputs... but you still haven't learned NSX control. You will always be cautious because of the fear of "losing it". For that you need AutoX, where you can go way over the limits and there's nothing to hit. You need to spin out... over and over. You can do drift clinics where you are encouraged to push the tail out and control it (very difficult in an NSX but can be done). The combination of good car control and being smooth then create a fast driver/car on the track. If you start at autox, and do ONLY That, you may pickup a lot of bad habits. I have seen some fast autox guys that are horrendous with their inputs, nothing but abrupt. On the track that will put them into a wall. It's doing things
in combination where I personally have made big gains. So I am just sharing this for info. You will have a lot of fun on the track and as a novice its very safe as you just don't push that hard. All these things like sway bar setups come into play when you are beyond that and pushing hard. Until then, it's mostly just theory.
