In a message dated 12/27/2007 7:42:50 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
spitlist@cox.net writes:
Increasing front stiffness (springs, shocks or sway bar) will increase the
potential for understeer. Compensating for too much understeer is
accomplished by adding stiffness to the rear.
==AM==
I'm with you, Joe. And I can "prove" it from personal experience. Back in
the 1970s when I was autocrossing my essentially stock GT6+, I often ran
against
another 6+. It was also essentially stock, except that the owner had added
the thicker front sway bar from a later swing-spring Spitfire. We swapped cars
occasionally, and there was no question in my mind that his car was much
more prone to plowing like a Ferguson tractor. ;-)
"Racing" Spitfires are a whole 'nuther story, since suspension modifications
are not limited to just a thicker front sway bar.
--Andy Mace
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Triumph Herald engine with wings.
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