Adjusting Your Dampers for the Race Track 101

Comme demandé par plusieurs membres. Allan Staniforth, « Suspension de voiture de compétition ».

La première page est pour Understeer. La deuxième page est pour OVERSTEER.

Note:

'augmenter' le rebond ou la compression augmenter/rigidifier l'amortissement du rebond ou de la compression
'diminuer' le rebond ou la compression diminuer/assouplir l'amortissement du rebond ou de la compression
"excessif" trop d'amortissement, c'est-à-dire trop ferme

Thanks for posting! This should be a sticky for sure.

Thanks!

You mean, you don't magically get rid of "teh understeer" by removing the stagger? Or by going to a larger swaybar? WTF?

I just lost all faith in the internets.

EDIT: If there ever was a thread worth "sticky-ing" on the interwebs, THIS is it.

Porschefile wrote  

Thanks for posting! This should be a sticky for sure.

+1000000

NICE...

The HACK wrote

You mean, you don't magically get rid of "teh understeer" by removing the stagger? Or by going to a larger swaybar? WTF?
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The flow chart assumes the car has:

- properly sized tires.
- racing oriented camber
- racing oriented suspension, like double adjustable dampers and adjustable sway bars

But, yes, removing the stagger is the first step. In my opinion, camber plates are next. That is all you need to get rid of the understeer.

Porschefile wrote

Thanks for posting! This should be a sticky for sure.

+10086

Similar write up for ASTs..

sleepless wrote

The flow chart assumes the car has:

- properly sized tires.
- racing oriented camber
- racing oriented suspension, like double adjustable dampers and adjustable sway bars

But, yes, removing the stagger is the first step. In my opinion, camber plates are next. That is all you need to get rid of the understeer.

Yup. Tires will probably have most significant impact per dollar amount you spend than any other modification.

But one important point re stagger is that you always want to ADD traction to the axle that lacks traction, and NOT removing traction from the axle that has "too much" traction... unless you are limited by tire sizes, regulations, etc.

Thanks for this!
I was looking for this thread

Thanks for posting. Looking forward to new dampers and trying out the flow chart.

Thanks 😊