Weight Reduction Question

armensti

ok thnx guys

wstar

It's not all in your head though. Taking the spare out changed the weight balance of the car, which will make it feel different driving. It's not enough weight reduction on its own to make a notable acceleration difference, but what's helping your head play tricks on you is that the car really does "feel different", just not in the way you wish

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armensti

the rear of the car does feel lighter. i dno if its a good thing because during turns it might not have enough weight so it might under steer a lil or over steer

i think adding more weight to the back will make the car over steer a lil bit more then usual right?

wstar

Our cars come from the factory slightly front-heavy compared to how they optimally should be (which is normal for a front-engine rear-wheel-drive design). So yeah, removing weight from the rear without changing anything else is generally a net negative for the car's handling. You'll lose straight-line traction from having less weight over the driving wheels to push them into the road, and you'll gain more oversteer (meaning the rear tends to slide outward in a corner when you approach the car's limits) from the same.

What you really want to do is kill weight from the front of the car rather than the rear, or when lightening all over, make sure you remove more from the front than you do the rear.

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