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Old 12-25-2004, 02:35 PM
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Default How do I correct understeer?

With a 19x8 rim in the front and a 19x10 rim in the rear, I know im going to experience understeer. Can I correct it and whats the best way to do it?
Old 12-25-2004, 05:44 PM
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You will be running quite a bit of stagger, which, as you are speculating, will add much more oversteer to the car. A much stiffer rear sway will tend to neutralize the car a bit, but won't be able to correct all of it.

You could add a front camber kit, and dial in a few degrees of neg. camber but that will really wear your tires during street driving.
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I meant oversteer, sorry guys
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Oops. I mistyped above. I meant you will experience more UNDERSTEER. Oversteer with that setup will not be a problem.

Sorry for the confusion.

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Old 12-27-2004, 04:58 PM
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Understeer is primarily created by having a too stiff front sway bar and allowing the front tires to be overloaded by cornering forces..........stronger load index front tires and a 10% weaker front sway bar will do wonders or a stiffer rear sway bar.

There are lots of ways to skin this cat [under vs over] steer.
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get some sway bars
Old 12-28-2004, 02:28 PM
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Coilovers and sways will help. The best results seem to be with the same size tires and wheels all around. There is a thread where someone achieved 1g on the skid pad with 9.5 BBS wheels on all 4 corners. I think they ran 255 rubber. They did sways as well I think. I'll post if I can find it.
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