05-03-2013, 10:18 PM
I think it's your toe angle to blame here. Toe neutral (i.e parralel) will give you a very responsive turn in, and decrease understeer. However, it'll mean that you have to physically straighten the wheel as you exit corners. If you give it just a tiny bit of toe IN, you'll get most of the benefits but it'll still want to straighten itself up. Toe OUT would be bloody lethal on a road car but if you set it up and got used to driving it on track, it'd be very fast.
The other things to consider are the way it affects stability and also under/oversteer.
Toe IN will give a more stable drive at high speed but will also increase the tendency to understeer, it's for this reason that most road cars are set up with a fairly heavy toe in, to make them safe and easy to drive. (average joe overcooks it into a corner, understeers, brakes, nice and easy round the bend)
Toe OUT will destabilize the car at higher speeds but will reduce understeer.
If any of that's wrong, please someone correct me!
The other things to consider are the way it affects stability and also under/oversteer.
Toe IN will give a more stable drive at high speed but will also increase the tendency to understeer, it's for this reason that most road cars are set up with a fairly heavy toe in, to make them safe and easy to drive. (average joe overcooks it into a corner, understeers, brakes, nice and easy round the bend)
Toe OUT will destabilize the car at higher speeds but will reduce understeer.
If any of that's wrong, please someone correct me!
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