On 27 Dec 2007 at 17:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The second thing is to increase the load on the front tires.
This is not quite correct. A larger front swaybar increases the load on the outside front and inside rear tires, and decreases the tires on the opposite diagonal. Whether this is a good thing depends on a bunch of other factors. With a front engine way up in the air you usually already have too much weight on the outside front tire, so the result is to reduce front traction. Similar arguments apply at the rear, where the center of mass is much lower. The roll center is also different front to rear, usually much higher at the rear, especially with a swing axle. The result is that you start with even more weight already transferred to the OF/IR diagonal. Yes, having the car sit flatter in a corner is good, but the weight shift onto the already overburdened diagonal makes understeer worse. -- Jim Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED] '80 Spitfire, '70 GT6+ _______________________________________________ Support Team.Net http://www.team.net/donate.html [email protected] http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/spitfires http://www.team.net/archive
