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I think that understeer is what I am experiencing, if that is when your front end doesn't grip going around a corner. If I come into a corner at a good speed, my front tires will squeel and not get very good traction. I would much rather my back end slid around, kinda like drifting, why will my car not do that??? I have BFG all the way around and they are pretty sticky. I don't really race or anything but here in Tennessee there are some really good curves through the mountains, but my car just slides...
Any info would be appreciated
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Welcome to "big heavy car" land, RWD or not. Add a larger rear bar and you'll be saying "Oh **** that's the guard rail!" instead of "Why am I not turning?"
-Rob
Most cars are setup to understeer from the factory because it is safer.
By that I mean it is easier for the novice to know he has hit the limit because the front tires break before ther rear, and they will give a warning that can't be missed before that happens. The driver naturally eases up before the limit is reached.
Be careful in tuning the car for oversteer, as it can get you into alot of trouble on the street. You'll push the car untill it breaks, and it will do so with little warning. On the street, with very litte run-off areas, people can get in big trouble.
Now if the car is being setup for the track, that's a different story.
"Now if the car is being setup for the track, that's a different story."
Not so much. Race cars need some understeer so they can accelerate full throttle off corners early. There's a fair amount of understeer dialed into, say, a NASCAR stocker setup for Sears Point, which has several slow corners. "We don't race through corners, we dragrace betwen them." The guy who gets on the gas first wins.
And on the street it's not just a novice driver thing. Even an expert has a better chance of avoiding an accident with understeer, instead of oversteer.
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