Driven5 wrote:
... The 'suspension 101' answer for balancing the front vs rear is that if the car understeers you need to increase the rear and/or decrease the front roll stiffness, and if the car oversteers you need to decrease the rear and/or increase the front roll stiffness...
Or as my buddy says, you have to degrade the end of the car that's sticking better...
Regarding the rear end tricks that site discusses, my brother set up his Stalker so that his rear suspension has very little droop. His thinking is that in a turn, the inside tire isn't doing much, so it could serve better as ballast. He said that ever since he switched to that setup, his lap times dropped markedly. I have mixed feelings about it, specifically the "discontinuity" that must occur as the tire is lifted up off the ground, but it seems to work for him.
Regarding their use of locked rear ends, yeah that would explain why they may be doing that. With a proper LSD, that's not necessary.
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