Hey everyone! I could use some input of where to go next, or if I don’t completely understand what I think I understand??? I feel like I struggle with understeer in the front mid corner but some things just don’t add up in my mind. Let me explain.
I have been competing in autocross heavily for the last three years for a push to get good enough to go to nationals in Nebraska. Well that’s this year as I’m signed up!
Now that I’m signed up I want to put my best effort into giving it my all. So I’m trying to work on things to get the car dial as much as possible. This brings me to my issues of the feeling of understeer mid corner.
The car is a pretty basic setup Koni yellows, H&R road race springs. 305/30/19’s I put heim joint rear lower arms in and MM panhard bar. A 35mm front adjustable sway bar and a Steeda 1 1/4 adjustable rear bar. After playing with settings on the bars I have both bars as soft as they can go. I feel like this is not good. In pictures and video the front transfers weight a lot. I have talked to a few people and it’s been mentioned that my rear bar is too big. Well this past weekend I tried my stock bar for testing purposes and found it to have a significant increase in rear oversteer and disliked it so much I made the change back to the Steeda bar mid day.
I feel like I need to make the rear tighter but everything I read says this is the wrong way? Is it my driving style or am I just missing something. I attached some videos. Just wanting to learn how to be faster and have no problem with trying new things.
I have been competing in autocross heavily for the last three years for a push to get good enough to go to nationals in Nebraska. Well that’s this year as I’m signed up!
Now that I’m signed up I want to put my best effort into giving it my all. So I’m trying to work on things to get the car dial as much as possible. This brings me to my issues of the feeling of understeer mid corner.
The car is a pretty basic setup Koni yellows, H&R road race springs. 305/30/19’s I put heim joint rear lower arms in and MM panhard bar. A 35mm front adjustable sway bar and a Steeda 1 1/4 adjustable rear bar. After playing with settings on the bars I have both bars as soft as they can go. I feel like this is not good. In pictures and video the front transfers weight a lot. I have talked to a few people and it’s been mentioned that my rear bar is too big. Well this past weekend I tried my stock bar for testing purposes and found it to have a significant increase in rear oversteer and disliked it so much I made the change back to the Steeda bar mid day.
I feel like I need to make the rear tighter but everything I read says this is the wrong way? Is it my driving style or am I just missing something. I attached some videos. Just wanting to learn how to be faster and have no problem with trying new things.
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