KW Variant 3 coilovers: A short review
04-26-2010, 08:56 AM
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BTW – reminds me of the running joke we had back in High school – A bunch of us used to travel around in a VW bug (usually to go skateboarding) and the brakes were so pathetic that we all would turn around and face backwards whenever we had to brake – we were reversing our momentum…
04-26-2010, 06:52 PM
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ps I agree that we should pay a smidge more attention to how we write in here on occasion.
04-26-2010, 10:15 PM
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To be 100% accurate, acceleration is both speeding up and slowing down. By definition, acceleration is a change in velocity over time. Since velocity is a vector, two changes can be possible, magnitude or direction. In one dimension (EX: a line) acceleration is the rate at which something speeds up or slows down.
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04-27-2010, 03:57 AM
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I can get both lift off oversteer and power oversteer. On faster corners I can balance it on the throttle, on slower and compound or reverse curves it can get a little twitchy, especially under braking. But I have got it fish tailing exiting tight curves on (gentle) throttle.
Might also be worth raising the front ride height (increments of 10mm) to see if raising the front roll centre makes any difference - should feel much better on tight turns.
Radical move would be more rear spring and less rear bar - counterintuitive, but can work wonders on semitrailing arm suspension.
My car is 400lb/in front, 850lb/in rear, M030 sways with rear on middle setting, zero front/rear toe, and I still have too much understeer for my liking ...
04-27-2010, 07:43 AM
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04-27-2010, 07:44 AM
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OK, next time I reach the appropriate braking point at the track I will lift off the gas and reunaccelerate followed by application of the brake and initiate some positive disacceleration.
BTW – reminds me of the running joke we had back in High school – A bunch of us used to travel around in a VW bug (usually to go skateboarding) and the brakes were so pathetic that we all would turn around and face backwards whenever we had to brake – we were reversing our momentum…
BTW – reminds me of the running joke we had back in High school – A bunch of us used to travel around in a VW bug (usually to go skateboarding) and the brakes were so pathetic that we all would turn around and face backwards whenever we had to brake – we were reversing our momentum…
04-27-2010, 07:45 AM
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Just want to add one more thing here, Ehall:
To be 100% accurate, acceleration is both speeding up and slowing down. By definition, acceleration is a change in velocity over time. Since velocity is a vector, two changes can be possible, magnitude or direction. In one dimension (EX: a line) acceleration is the rate at which something speeds up or slows down.
Just sayin'
To be 100% accurate, acceleration is both speeding up and slowing down. By definition, acceleration is a change in velocity over time. Since velocity is a vector, two changes can be possible, magnitude or direction. In one dimension (EX: a line) acceleration is the rate at which something speeds up or slows down.
Just sayin'
04-27-2010, 09:05 AM
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BTW – reminds me of the running joke we had back in High school – A bunch of us used to travel around in a VW bug (usually to go skateboarding) and the brakes were so pathetic that we all would turn around and face backwards whenever we had to brake – we were reversing our momentum…
04-27-2010, 09:09 AM
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Hi Eric, have you checked the rear bump stops to make sure they're not loading up under the combination of squat and cornering?
Might also be worth raising the front ride height (increments of 10mm) to see if raising the front roll centre makes any difference - should feel much better on tight turns.
Radical move would be more rear spring and less rear bar - counterintuitive, but can work wonders on semitrailing arm suspension.
My car is 400lb/in front, 850lb/in rear, M030 sways with rear on middle setting, zero front/rear toe, and I still have too much understeer for my liking ...
Might also be worth raising the front ride height (increments of 10mm) to see if raising the front roll centre makes any difference - should feel much better on tight turns.
Radical move would be more rear spring and less rear bar - counterintuitive, but can work wonders on semitrailing arm suspension.
My car is 400lb/in front, 850lb/in rear, M030 sways with rear on middle setting, zero front/rear toe, and I still have too much understeer for my liking ...
04-27-2010, 09:11 AM
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Just want to add one more thing here, Ehall:
To be 100% accurate, acceleration is both speeding up and slowing down. By definition, acceleration is a change in velocity over time. Since velocity is a vector, two changes can be possible, magnitude or direction. In one dimension (EX: a line) acceleration is the rate at which something speeds up or slows down.
Just sayin'
To be 100% accurate, acceleration is both speeding up and slowing down. By definition, acceleration is a change in velocity over time. Since velocity is a vector, two changes can be possible, magnitude or direction. In one dimension (EX: a line) acceleration is the rate at which something speeds up or slows down.
Just sayin'
04-27-2010, 09:40 AM
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any change in velocity really is acceleration when you corner is lateral acceleration ??
the easy way to check suspension travel is put a cable tie tight on the strut chrome of the shock above the bump stop then after a few laps the position of the cable tie will indicate the maximum compression there was...
the easy way to check suspension travel is put a cable tie tight on the strut chrome of the shock above the bump stop then after a few laps the position of the cable tie will indicate the maximum compression there was...
04-28-2010, 06:49 AM
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Hi Eric, have you checked the rear bump stops to make sure they're not loading up under the combination of squat and cornering?
Might also be worth raising the front ride height (increments of 10mm) to see if raising the front roll centre makes any difference - should feel much better on tight turns.
Radical move would be more rear spring and less rear bar - counterintuitive, but can work wonders on semitrailing arm suspension.
My car is 400lb/in front, 850lb/in rear, M030 sways with rear on middle setting, zero front/rear toe, and I still have too much understeer for my liking ...
Might also be worth raising the front ride height (increments of 10mm) to see if raising the front roll centre makes any difference - should feel much better on tight turns.
Radical move would be more rear spring and less rear bar - counterintuitive, but can work wonders on semitrailing arm suspension.
My car is 400lb/in front, 850lb/in rear, M030 sways with rear on middle setting, zero front/rear toe, and I still have too much understeer for my liking ...
The rear bumps aren't loading up - plenty of travel there. What I think might be contributing is the combination of tbars and springs. The spring length is such that I can't lower any further and I feel the springs are taking a lot of the initial load. I'm going to put some shorter springs in and adjust the rear height down a bit and see what happens (if my toe and sway adjustment didn't work).