The big picture is that no matter what you do, a Tiger is never going to handle
as good as a modern car.
But as far as your car, I think:
Wider low profile tires ARE going to follow ruts more.
Increasing the front bar will increase understeer.
Raising the front of the car will increase understeer.
Wider tires in the back will increase understeer.
Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: CoolVT@aol.com
To: tigers@autox.team.net
Sent: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 13:57:20 -0000 (UTC)
Subject: [Tigers] Tiger Handling
I've made some changes over the past few years and haven't been satisfied
with the handling. The 2 things that seem different are:
Pretty bad understeer on curves at 40 mph+
Car's tendency to want to follow ruts in the road.
It seems that the 2 problems are contradictory.
The things that I've changed from stock are:
MG Midget steering rack
Wheels that were high profile 185 x 13 are now 195 x 50 x16 (front) and
205 x 50 x16 (rear).
Thicker sway bar on front (I think it's 7/8's")
1/2" thick shims above the front springs (to raise the front a little
Softened the front shock adjustment because I thought it would be too hard
with low profile tires.
Done an allignment and that seems good.
Any suggestions?
Mark L
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