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Re: Overinflated Tires -> Skiddish

To: BONNILA@aol.com, mgrazian@ltcm.com
Subject: Re: Overinflated Tires -> Skiddish
From: Barney Gaylord <barneymg@ntsource.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 20:21:01
At 05:40 PM 12/28/98 EST, BONNILA@aol.com wrote:
>Overinflation puts less rubber on the road, which obviously decreases the
road grip of the tires. 
>
>Overinflating the front tires only  on an MGC to about 36psi reduces a lot
of the nose-heavy understeer of these cars for this reason.

Huh?  Overinflating front only reduces grip of front only.  So how does
that reduce understeer?  The logic doesn't follow.

Having said that, there are conditions where overinflating the front tires
only could reduce unbdersteer, but for entirely different reasons.

Barney Gaylord
1958 MGA with an attitude


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