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Originally Posted by skets
thanks for the suggestion, i'm taking a drive to the country this weekend so i will try taking out the seats then...
As for you explanation of the teins spring rates, that makes a whole lotta sense. I will definately push Shift_O_L to buy the teins then... then we can make a real comparison of the two setups.
BTW based on what i read in Kojima's articles on sentra.net; stiffening the rear of your car is the best way to counter understeer , however i have a friend with an AE110 supercharged levin and he is running stock springs (which are pretty soft) with KYB agx in the front set to stiff and kyb gr2's in the back. The thing is his car oversteers all the time, even the slightest corner and his car oversteers. Doesnt this go against the reasonings in Kojima's article?
I ask because right now i can only afford to buy a pair of adjustable shocks and based on Mikes article i should buy the pair for the back and set those to stiff to get rid of some understeer, but based on what i see in real life it would make sense to buy the front ones. Please explain what is happening with my friends car.
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Either three things are probably happening, the rear suspension is bottoming under roll, the tire pressures are way off or the rear suspension is misaligned and the tires are toeing out.
Shocks don't change the ratio of understeer to oversteer, they control the rate of weight transfer and how rapidly understeer or oversteer, whatever the cars natural balance is sets in.
Your friends car should not set the front shocks to full stiff with stock springs.
