Handling was [Shotimes] RE: supercharging

[Donald Mallinson]

All this about over/under steer is pretty simple.  Different 
drivers can make the car do different things.

When it comes to suspensions, the rules are also pretty much 
the same RWD or FWD.  any thing you make stiffer or firmer 
(shocks, springs, bushings) will ADD understeer.

Make something softer, you ADD oversteer.

Tires work the opposite up to a point.  More air makes the 
tire stick better, less air makes it slide more.

going by stock settings any FWD, and almost ALL RWD cars 
will understeer.  That is the way they are set at the 
factory by the lawyers.  Understeer is safer than oversteer.

Want to make a FWD SHO oversteer?  pump the front tires to 
45 psi and drop the rears to 30.  Then let off the gas in a 
hard corner or tap the brakes, or just overcook it.

Want to make any car understeer?  REALLY overcook a corner 
and then yank the steering wheel.

Some people just have never set up or driven their SHO a 
certain way so they think it is an understeering pig.  Yes 
it can be, but it need not be.

The car handles VERY WELL, even compared to a LOT of RWD 
cars.  Compared to most FWD, it is great.

But if all you think and want is an understeering pig, then 
your SHO will be that.

Go to a driving school, and take your SHO.  Let a really 
good driver get in it and maybe tweak the tire pressure and 
you will be amazed at what the car can do.

I have riden with and driven with enough pro drivers in my 
SHO to know that they are impressed.  And these people would 
have told me if they thought the car was a pig.  I trust 
their opinion a lot more than someone that already seems to 
hate his SHO or not respect it.

Don Mallinson