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Originally Posted by strat61caster
So you're telling me that this car, off the showroom floor, with zero camber up front, doesn't understeer?
lol
Certainly a good driver can make it work (I didn't have the patience to figure it out) but it's not as balanced as it could be with some relatively simple adjustments. I don't think you're criticisms of OP are wrong but the massive difference in balance by changing one variable... I'll never go back.
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In fact a properly setup race car should be slightly biased towards understeer.
A car with just a little understeer is more predictable, easier to recover and requires a little less effort to drive, but it is a hotly debated topic and you will find many that say otherwise.
At the track I met a guy that races a stock BRZ and he is the fastest of almost any of the twins in the region. He said that almost every race the other twin drivers will come and ask him what mods he has to make him so fast. He tells them "Take all of that shit off your car and learn to drive it in the configuration that the engineers intended, THEN you can decide what the car needs."
The ONLY mods he had was an extra set of wheels with racing tires.
Here are a few good links:
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQRmYMlmdqM#t=1289"]skip barber going faster - YouTube[/ame]
http://safeisfast.com/sections/6-adv...g#.VqO2zBUrLIX