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Old 05-19-2010, 03:30 PM
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My car doesn't understeer, at least in my opinion, doesn't oversteer either, again in my opinion.
If it doesn't understeer and it doesn't oversteer, then you're driving it like my grandma. Increase your corner entry speed until it does one or the other. You will never ever learn car control if you don't.

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Bob has it right, stiffer rear bar stops the rear body roll and I feel better with it that way.
You feel better about it because you're cornering at such low speeds. Once you increase your speed, you'll find that stiffening the rear bar like you've done makes the car tail-happy. The car will be MORE inclined to have the back end swing out on you. You can discover that at low speed, in turn 1 with a soft stock suspension. Or you can discover that at high speed in turn 9, with a highly modified track suspension. Hint: you do not want to spin in 9.

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Dave, isn't your car's suspension completely different than mine? So is the weight.
That's irrelevant here. The tuning concepts and handling behaviors involved are the same.
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