On Saturday, Jun 28, 2003, at 23:10 US/Pacific, Larrybsp@aol.com wrote:
> eliminate antidive in autocrossing. Its a beneficial characteristic.
> Without
> antidive as soon as you hit the the brakes you are going to compress
> the front
> springs and increase the load on the front tires. Remember the
> traction circle. If
> the tire is loaded from braking forces it loses turning capability.
> Not only
Aren't you transferring the weight up front anyway? Just as was
mentioned the other day with lateral transfer, how much is transferred
is just a factor of the CG and deceleration rate. Or is it that
regardless of the transfer, you don't want to get that much suspension
movement?
> have you have used up much of your suspension travel, when you start
> your
> turn and introduce body roll you can bottom your suspension at which
> point you
> have no suspension and all the weight transfer load will go to that
> tire causing
> it to lose traction.
Got it. So analogous to lateral roll, it's A Bad Thing primarily
because it upsets the suspension or takes it out of the favorable part
of its operating range, not because of any inherent physics reason,
right?
KeS
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