Need help eliminating oversteer

Hotrodz · 08-04-2018, 01:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by robertkroll

The car is tame in the straight braking zone and becomes slightly lose as you trail into the turn. You have to be careful not to carry too much speed or the back will start to wash out and this will destroy your turn. It's predictable for rotation at the apex which is helpful, but I would rather have the added grip. Once through the apex, the car doesn't let you go back to power without the back pushing out. You have to very gently add power through the track out without getting too excided, but as you get closer to a straight wheel, you can go back to power. I can hear the E46's get back to full power ahead of me. The crappy part is that I have the power on the straight, so I can reel them back in, but lose the distance again at the next corner.

The WORST thing about this is that we rent seats out for endurance racing and we use the car for instruction and when we put somebody in the seat with slightly less experience, it becomes a dangerous situation.

Thank you for providing detail on what you are experiencing. It is obvious you have a lot more track experience than I do and I hopefully we can find some solution to what you are describing. Although I might not be driving as aggressively as you are I know exactly what you are talking about when accelerating out of low to medium speed turns. I have thought it was and still maybe to a degree my inexperience and driving technique along with boost (torque) coming on strong and early. That said, if I must go to second gear I have to really be light on the throttle or allow the car to totally rotate beyond the apex to apply throttle many times I simply stay in third gear for risk of loosing to much time or spinning out. It is definitely annoying to run away from most in my run group only to be caught in the corners because of poor exit speed. I am not a fan of short twisty tracks because of this.

You said you were researching some geometric suspension alternatives, care to share what you have found so far? I know some of the folks that are doing the quarter mile and half mile thing are making strides in this area and it is very much on the down low as records continue to be broken in the straight line game.

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