In a message dated 8/12/03 6:08:44 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
rowman22001@yahoo.com writes:
> Seems like a heavier front bar would tend to increase
> the understeer, unless the car is heeling over so far
> in stock form that it's screwing up the contact patch.
> Is this really the hot ticket?
>
>
Paul, your statement is in line with accepted gospel for nose heavy
understeering cars.
BUT - the MGC is a bit of a special case - the front wheel tends to fold
under in really hard cornering, losing grip and causing the terminal understeer
-
screwing up the contact patch, as you stated.
By increasing the front roll stiffness, you prevent this from happening (as
soon) and improve the handling immensely! Counter-intuitive, I know, but it
works.
A 7/8" front bar works wonders on the cars. Bloody shame the factory didn't
fit them from new - it would surely have made a large difference to the press
the cars received!
Really good shocks on the front is the icing on the cake.
Bill
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