xxx main chassis setup guide is da bomb !

[kevsta]

I just bought this little 66 page guide and have been reading ittoday and it really explains all the stuff involved in setting up a touring car to handle well in plain english I might add – ie. no maths formulas and stuff…

It contains a lot of infothat I couldn’t find out on the web.

Well worth the $30 in my opinion…

There is quite a lot of emphasis on weight transfer !

[TallduDe]

hmmmm i might be ‘borrowing’ it off you LOL.

but the title is XXX right? bit confusing if you ask me………

[dgs73]

XXX Main my man… got some cool as dvds out too… mucho destruction and things…

[FALCON-LORD]

So far my info on Car handleing has come from this site

http://users.pandora.be/elvo/

Not sure how it stacks up, but it is over all very readable and doesn’t cost $30

Any chance you could tell us how it stacks up to the book Kev?

[kevsta]

quote:

Quote:

So far my info on Car handleing has come from this site

http://users.pandora.be/elvo/

Not sure how it stacks up, but it is over all very readable and doesn””t cost $30

Any chance you could tell us how it stacks up to the book Kev?

I’ve been through those chapters on that site several times prior to buying the book and although it contains some good information on the theory, I felt it didn’t give me the information that I really needed on the track.

For example, take a scenariowhere you’re car enters a turn and the rear becomes loose, what settings can you do to prevent the rear from coming loose…? I had no idea prior to buying the book…

But after reading the book, I now know that on entry to a turn, too much weight is being transferred from the rear to the front. The front will have lots of tractiondue toall the weighttransferred to it while the rear doesn’t and loses traction.

Tolimit this weight transfer from happening:

– Reduce rear droop.

– use a softer spring on the rear or use a harder spring on the front.

– adjust ride height so that the rear is atmost 1mm lower than the front.

To increase rear traction/stability:

– ensure rear camber is properly set.

– rear toe-in settings.

That’s the sort of information that I was really after and simply could not find else where on the web…

[ph2t]

I’ll pay ya $10 to scan the bugger in, lol…..

ph2t.

[FALCON-LORD]

Cool thanks Kev.

[betty.k]

if you make the rear track narrower the rear will slide out less.

[dgs73]

i got pretty lucky… the instructions that came with mine had set ups (droop, toe in, camber, everything) for various different track surfaces and layouts. My other method was to note rthe setup it had, and adjust things one at a time, and compare lap times pre and post change. If faster, go with the new change. If your time increases, go back to the previous setting and try something different. Hope this helps

Edited by – dgs73 on 12 May 2005 16:13:30

[Author]

Posts