Reducing understeer in the rain?
09-29-17, 10:48 AM
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While I get your point he stated it's a big trouble to get his car corner weighted. In my experience corner weighting 2 different FD chassis that if the ride heights were set to be as close as possible with the drivers weight in the car as a starting point the Cross weights were 0.5% or less off each time. He can use that as a guide and starting point if it's that much trouble to properly scale the car.
I only corner-balanced my FD once, when I got the Ohlins coilovers for it. Installed them and cross-weights were within 15 lb., done! Should always be that easy...
09-29-17, 09:47 PM
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09-29-17, 09:54 PM
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but in those circumstances more pressure = higher temps.
or i should say that the tires came up to a more ideal temp, we were having trouble getting them hot enough. MORE pressure, temps went into the happy zone. tire will give you more performance longer.
so try it. i suspect that this phenomena works on a curve, way too low = hot, too low = cold, just right = just right. too much, then could go either way.
09-30-17, 06:45 AM
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As for your other comment, Mazda made several million 1st-gen RX-7s that sat much lower on the left than the right, even when everything was "perfect"... Ignore the ride height, look at the scales.
10-15-17, 08:37 PM
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My FC with stock suspension has a lot of understeer especially in the rain. Do you have sway bars you can adjust to increase rear roll stiffness or decrease front stiffness?