Not happy with handling

[Beedub]

DSC is too sensitive on the track. It's very intrusive and quickly cooks the brakes. I managed three siting laps with it switched on on my first track day after buying the Zed and that left the pads smoking. I'd recommend switching it off wet or dry (on the track) and driving to the conditions and your abilities.
The ///M inherently understeers, but pulling the camber pins, adjusting toe and fitting sticky rubber will reduce that without great expense. Thereafter, RTAB limiters, thicker ARBs and VT engine mounts are the most cost efficient way to make further handling gains.
Ultimately, it's never going to handle like your Lotus - I've spent years trying to make my ///M handle like my 600kg Westfield and learned that the expensive way! The Zed has a very capable chassis though, and the route to making the most of it is now reasonably well trodden...

my current benchmark for just an awesome chassis is my little fiesta ST.... which i decided to take on a track day last SAT, well that couldnt have have been more interesting, as expecting the car felt so awesome, composed , checkable, grippy, Properly fun, lift off over-steer at will, but the z4 ( albeit heavily worked) trounced it in pretty much every department , even managing to feel lighter and more agile, really pleased with the current setup of my little Z, understeer is just non existent and i can really balance it on the throttle upto and beyond the limit of grip with total control due the amount of information I'm getting from the car.

Fiesta is a beast though for a car out the box just cant get over how good it is. In the latest evo theirs a dude that writes in to the letters section saying how his is faster on the back roads than his 996... i hate banging on about it, but its ace, really enjoying tuning it up too.

 

[BMWZ4MC]

I'd forgotten how much fun lightweight FWD hatchbacks can be until I had one as a hire car a few weeks ago. I drove a few thousand km of the coast and mountain roads in North Queensland in a small Holden and the handling and chuckability were fantastic. The lift-off oversteer and easy heel and toe more than made up for the lack of power...which also kept the militant Aussie police away from me too! I bet your Fiesta must be awesome on country roads and tight, technical tracks