Thread: FWD set-up
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Old 26 Nov 2014, 17:45 (Ref:3478962)   #7
Turby
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Front springs sound too hard to me, try 400 or 450. Bit of toe out on the front helps turn in.

I believe the general idea it to make the rear of the car slightly "loose" and to get it to "rotate" through the corner, this will reduce understeer. You can get to the point that once the car is rotating you can take off all steering lock and simply floor it through the car using all the available traction for acceleration rather than acceleration and steering.

You can fine tune this affect as well by increasing rear tyre pressures, try 30 rear and 22 front. Some FWD racers run 40+ on the rear!

As before change one thing at a time, but above all make sure the driver slowly adapts to the handling required. A nervous car which wants to step out at the rear at 100 mph through the craner curves can be "exciting" to say the least!

If you are taking out the edges of the front tyres go for even more negative camber! As said by others, tyre temps are key to understanding how much camber your car needs
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