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Re: How do you reduce oversteer in a FWD car?

To: jaker@u.washington.edu, Cccya1@aol.com
Subject: Re: How do you reduce oversteer in a FWD car?
From: Mdmtrsport@aol.com
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 07:11:03 EDT
I can't agree with left foot braking on a front driver during turn in. You 
are asking too much of the front wheels to brake, turn, accelerate/power at 
the same time. Something gets conmpromised.

The easiest cure to reduce FWD oversteer, folks, is to reduce the 
differential in tire presures front to rear. In other words: Increase the 
rear pressure, or reduce the fronts. This works, and is a known trick to 
increase oversteer in FWD, run Front tire pressures way higher than normal 
for street. Worked on my CRX years ago, and made the car way too tail happy.

Theory is it stiffens tire side walls some degree, creating a more uniform 
contact patch and therefore greater tire adhesion/less adhesion at the 
affected ends of the car.

Mike d.

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