My rocc plows now!

[Scirocco-Al" <scirocco-Al@insight.rr.com (Scirocco-Al)]

I say put a front sway bar on it, or stiffer front springs.  I ran into this
a few years ago when I took the front bar completely off of my race car to
see what would happen.  You would think that a very tail happy car would get
even more tail happy but it pushed like a pig.  The front suspension moved
so much underload that the tire contact patch couldn't keep proper alignment
to the road.  It was horrible.  Note that a lot of the IT racers don't use
fron bars, but they do use horrendously high front spring rates in most
cases.  I think some thin like 500 to 600 in front.

I would bet that this is what you are running in to.

Alan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry" <rocco16v@netzero.com>
To: "Dan Williams" <scirocco21@hotmail.com>; <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 8:08 PM
Subject: Re: My rocc plows now!


Interesting, considering that adding a rear bar should make the car 'loose'
(oversteer), instead of 'tight' (understeer/plow).  Besides the springs and
strut brace, what else did you change?  We assume it didn't plow under
identical conditions of road, throttle, dryness, speed, etc. before these
modifications?

Larry

>
> Hey everybody,
>
> Heres the situation, My 86 8v has Intrax lowering springs, An upper strut
> tie bar and now a 28mm sway bar in the back.  I knew that it would screw
up
> my handling a little bit if I put on the sway bar, but I'm not sure what
to
> do now to fix it.  What happens exactly is if I try to power it through a
> corner the front end floats and drifts to the outside.  Its fine if I just
> drift through a corner without using too much gas, but thats no fun!  How
> the hell do I fix this?  A beefier front swaybar?
>
> Thanks
> Dan
>
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