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The main thing that caught my eye.
Originally Posted by Sarah
The front and rear suspensions each independently handle the body roll passing through their roll centers. The roll couple distribution is the amount of roll resistance at the front suspension relative to the amount at the rear. The roll couple distribution controls the handling balance of the car. Increasing of the front roll resistance will force more of the total weight transferred to the front tires, making the car more likely to understeer.
I have been going about this wrong all along, for two reasons, or rather two mindsets. For one is I'm turbo, stiffer front suspension helps reduce wheel hop. Second I always figured the car is going to lean forward and to a side anyway, thus might as well put stiffer springs up front so that that limits how much the front body rolls. What I'm going to try to do is put the Eibach springs in the back, they are much stiffer then Teins and B&G's, they also lower the rear 1.2", so it shouldn't look like the car is dragging it's butt.
The main thing that caught my eye.
Originally Posted by SarahThe front and rear suspensions each independently handle the body roll passing through their roll centers. The roll couple distribution is the amount of roll resistance at the front suspension relative to the amount at the rear. The roll couple distribution controls the handling balance of the car. Increasing of the front roll resistance will force more of the total weight transferred to the front tires, making the car more likely to understeer.
I have been going about this wrong all along, for two reasons, or rather two mindsets. For one is I'm turbo, stiffer front suspension helps reduce wheel hop. Second I always figured the car is going to lean forward and to a side anyway, thus might as well put stiffer springs up front so that that limits how much the front body rolls. What I'm going to try to do is put the Eibach springs in the back, they are much stiffer then Teins and B&G's, they also lower the rear 1.2", so it shouldn't look like the car is dragging it's butt.
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