[Land-speed] Car Spins

[Joe Lance]

And they kept that negative or zero caster even when they went to power
steering---very little directional stability. Even the bicycle mfgs knew
better.

 

Lance

 

-----Original Message-----
From: land-speed-bounces at autox.team.net
[mailto:land-speed-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Bryan Savage
Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 2:09 PM
To: LandSpeed List
Subject: Re: [Land-speed] Car Spins

 

Back in the '40's and early '50's Luxury Cars used a small amount of 

negative

 caster (2-4B0), to decrease steering effort. It couldn't have a bad 

effect on handling

because they drove like a fork lift with flat tires anyway. But they had 

a good

"Boulevard Ride" on their two ply 8:50 - 14's.

 

Bryan
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