Post by flipflopoo1oo on Apr 22, 2014 6:19:10 GMT -6
As with ice cream, I tend to want more and tend to use it all for the better! If zero worked no one would need any at all and sense some does help, I want more! This is what twist your frame when steering by lifting and lowering each side of the front to transfer weight and control rear steer and traction per corner! A drivers helper with out waiting on a roll to plant that unloaded right rear by switching the cross and transferring weight with a turn of the steering wheel! That is if your shocks and spring rates are not doing this already just by lifting the throttle! A little extra caster in certain set-ups is against all you are trying to do while on others it brings home the trophy! While spindles and bump steer angle changes can undermine motions of what caster is trying to do for you, it needs to be looked at with simple logic instead of a gauge! Put it all where it does the most good, for the good of the movement you desire per set-up! A extra scoop of Ice cream can transfer weight to the rear! How hard can this be? Move the upper ball joints to the rear! Thinking of caster seems backwards as the pivot should be in front to be caster of a positive nature to the wheel but definitions refer more to the ease of steer than direction of travel! It has been said that caster is always a positive thing but negative is what it is called by this application by me but it steers both front and rear to ease steer even when rolled! Behind at the top of the spindle on both sides gives the driver the option of not waiting on roll! Camber does affect this also but is more about tire surface contact during the turn, roll, bump steer process! Don't let these things be a puzzle! Get your four way lug wrench out and simulate movements and angle changes of control arms that change pivot angles until you see what is happening to the lean of the car and lift of the wheel and then to the car as it changes up or down and transfers weight to the springs! Look at the spring rates to tell whether they just absorbed or transferred the weight by it being compressed or by its poundage or just moved it to a weaker spring elsewhere! Giving this your full attention until you get the idea of the set up I use and why! I like Ice Cream but I love RACING!!! A ice cream bar with the trophy would be nice and my drivers would bring it to me!