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- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!balltown!welty
- From: welty@cabot.balltown.cma.COM (richard welty)
- Subject: Re: reducing understeer (and other questions)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.220800.20332@cabot.balltown.cma.COM>
- Organization: New York State Institute for Sebastian Cabot Studies
- References: <1992Aug17.232828.2470@nic.csu.net>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 22:08:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug17.232828.2470@nic.csu.net> vpopesc@opus.uucp (Valentin Popescu) writes:
-
- >o Can anyone tell me what the normal way of reducing understeer is? The
- > car in question is an 1985 Dodge Daytona with 2.2l Turbo engine and
- > front wheel drive. P195-50R15 tires. (It understeers annoyingly.. at
- > least compared to what I used to drive before)
-
- what were you driving before?
-
- front drivers will tend to have significant understeer built in;
- even with suspension mods, they will understeer at the drop of a hat
- if you enter a corner too fast and then give it too much gas in the
- corner. you can always try modifying your style; slow in/fast out
- cures an amazing number of understeer problems.
-
- cheers,
- richard
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