'61 Front End Alignment Question - Caster
07-13-2009, 09:02 PM
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lawdhavmercy.... somebody save me.
I don't know of any schools or driving clubs that would let you on a track without some kind of roll structure.
However.....
Look around for a drifting club in your area. $50 entry fee and $50 for some disposable tires and you'll be able to experience snap oversteer first hand!
Oh, and mount a video camera!
Jim
What I really need is 20 minutes on a skid pad to find out what the car is going to do, but taking a $2K Bondurant class,and also being told I can't use my car on their track to boot, rules that out.
Doug
Doug
However.....
Look around for a drifting club in your area. $50 entry fee and $50 for some disposable tires and you'll be able to experience snap oversteer first hand!
Oh, and mount a video camera!
Jim
Last edited by jim lockwood; 07-13-2009 at 09:17 PM.
07-14-2009, 09:15 AM
#23
Drifting
You may not have oversteer at the limit (car spins) but still have compliance oversteer (you have to countersteer while cornering). My '65 (stiff springs, low-profile tires) is squirreley in a high-g corner...I am sawing at the wheel in a high-g sweeping corner. I have new rubber suspension bushings, but I would expect to reduce the sawing if I went to polyurethane or aluminum.
I put stiff springs and low-profile tires on my '59, and don't remember it being very squirreley. It sure didn't want to track straight anymore, and rode like an unloaded F-350. (I removed the stiff springs in the 80s).
The C4 has no compliance oversteer. You just dial-in the steering...no sawing at the wheel.
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