[Spridgets] Wheel Spacers- Front AND rear?

[Mark Haynes]

Since I got four separate replies and two points of view, I tapped into my
engineering roots and found that the equations from Race Vehicle Dynamics
gives you greater understeer as the rear track decreases relative to the front
track. Therefore, as I'm adding to the rear track, the OVERSTEER should
increase.
The car is pretty neutral right now as opposed to the BE (wonderful large
amounts of oversteer), so a bit more oversteer is fine with me as it'll make
the MKII feel more like the BE.


Mark Haynes
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---------- Original Message ----------
From: Rick Fisk <refisk at chartermi.net>
To: Mark Haynes <haynes386 at netzero.net>
Cc: "spridgets at autox.team.net" <spridgets at autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Wheel Spacers- Front  AND rear?
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 20:15:52 -0400

The front track on a stock MkII is 1" wider than the rear.  I doubt if you wil
be able to tell the difference with spacers just thick enough to get the tires
to clear the springs.

Rick

Sent from my keyboard

On Oct 18, 2012, at 10:34 PM, "Mark Haynes" <haynes386 at netzero.net> wrote:

> Now that I've got 185/60-13s on the MKII, even with the offset springs in
the
> back I need wheel spacers to get the tires to center in the wheel well
> (Japanese rims). If I put wheel spacers behind the rears, should I also
space
> out the fronts, or will it make no difference.
> I'm thinking that if the rear track is wider than the front, then it may
make
> the steering heavier. Or am I just overthinking the whole thing (as usual)?
>
>
> Mark Haynes
> It only goes one way-Pay it Forward
> HAN6L12977
> AN5L8016
>

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