All this info is great thanks it’s been a great help
I was starting to think about how all of this applies to a drift car, back in 2010/2011 everyone was starting to change the Ackerman in the steering to reduce the scrub when I first did this I removed all the Ackerman completely so the inside...
GregLocock:
that’s a relief that you have had the same problem with insufficient returnability with BMW I talked to a few BMW workshops and I was told that it was just understeer and that I wasn’t driving the car right and I know this was wrong because I’ve owned and driven a few Toyota ae86's...
If the front of my car was setup like this car in the diagram i would have no problem agreeing that it would have a self centring effect
the e30 looks to be the same as a bike
I can understand mechanical trail can give you more feel from the front tires but when the car starts to understeer it starts to pull the steering wheel into the corner even more to the point that you have to force the wheel back the other way if it was a bike it would be called wheel flop if...
Was just thinking if I can get good feel and self centring from hub lead then why is it that I need 8.9degs caster and I’m being told to increase this to 9.5degs it seems far too much when other cars such a Nissan Silvia‘s have around 7degs and have no hub lead at all
cheers for that you were right with your first answer by the look of it, it will have little effect with what I want to do and sounds like there’s not much to gain by changing it either
Hi there
I’m trying to set up an BMW e30 for drifting and after a good look at the front suspension I noticed the front axle was placed around 50mm forward of the bottom ball joint so that the front wheel has move left to right slightly and forward and backwards due to the 14.4mm scrub radius...
