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Yeah, open tire is great for the fun runners but bad (possibly very very bad) for people trying to win.

Is it really that hard to get the LR up on the bars though? All I have to do is give the pedal on the right a stern look and up it goes.

You sir are a gentleman and scholar!

Anyone know what the fasteners are called that have a little lever that is springy and flips 180* to hold a panel closed?

Proving wrong my own theories about weight distribution and the role of static left side weight. Just trying to look at the suspension from different directions to understand it better.

If the CG is 24 inches high and the width is 70 inches, it looks like way, way more than 3% weight moves from the left side to the right side. So that theory is out.

I should prop up the LR with...

Found it on amazon kindle for $6. It's a collection of circle track articles, many of which seem to be pretty old. A bunch seem to be kinda crap, but there are some good ones. Bloomer wrote an...

Interesting, most of the stuff I've been reading says move the weight up for the slick when you're not getting as much weight transfer as in the tack.

It's a mess trying to figure this stuff out. ...

Must be a pretty small effect then? Does it do anything midcorner?

So, what about extra left side weight makes the car loose when off the throttle?

Just left side weight percentage. Not at a particular end of the car.

Anyone have a theory on why adding left side weight tends to loosen the car?

If you understand instant centers, anti dive is kinda similar to that except longways instead of sideways.

IIRC, when doing instant centers, you find the imaginary place where the control arms...

So we want the pressure as low as we can get it until the footprint goes to crap. Too much lateral load does that. In the middle of the corner, the right side tires have most of the lateral load...

I've got this one and have read through it a few times. Good stuff but kind of light on the "why" sometimes.

http://www.amazon.com/DIRT-MODEL-CHASSIS-TECHNOLOGY-MANUAL/dp/B00QVBTSAA

Sure, but why not less pressure on the right side tires then? Traction is good!



At corner exit, you're still turning as you feed in the power, so you still have weight transfering to the...

First paragraph is an effect, not a cause. Second paragraph is an effect, not a cause.

Third paragraph, holy crap, you just offered up a theory on why. Now if we have the bars and bite set to...

It says how much and how to tune, it doesn't say why the left side is different, or why the difference in pressure front to rear.

You have no idea either, so beat it.

Yeah, he doesn't seem to play nice in other threads either. He sent some abuse my way in private messages.

At any rate, the tentative plan for next week is to rotate the tires around, buy a belt...

Fair enough.



How many setup guides describe why lower pressures on the left side are favored? Do post a link if you can find one that says *why* lower pressures on the left are better.

Do you have a theory on why the lower pressures on the left side? Do the rights have to be higher to keep the tire on the bead or something?

3 psi split on the rear tires to add stagger?

Here's my guess at the primary effects of each of those:
1) lower rear roll center, more body roll, more weight transfer to RR when cornering
2) less rear steer, does something to entry maybe?
3)...

Eh, I can't really complain. A car got wiped for the night from one of my spins in the heat, and then I managed to back into someone's undamaged panel. Oops. Still adjusting to the no mirror...

Lots of crashing this time around. These cars are amazingly tough or I'm just amazingly lucky. All the crashing made it hard to focus on setup.

http://youtu.be/upp-VDbcqzM ...