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Originally Posted by churchx
"rear bias in spring rate" & "you want the car to be more oversteer biased"
I'm not the one to talk, as due being cheap i went to ice track with still summer track alignment of -3 front/-2.5 rear camber that is far from stock understeer-ish biased & which is of too much camber for driving on ice, but i'm not 100% convinced on these two bits. As in - 1) unlike on tarmac, it's VERY easy to power-oversteer on loose grip surfaces like gravel/snow/ice (i balanced 1/3-1/4th of throttle un icetrack, and that's on studded tires), 2) understeer bias may slightly compensate lack of stock steering angle, to allow opening throttle more, no?
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The issue there is that is way too much rear camber for ice! That means reduced grip. And power oversteer will always be easy to do on ice. You have to adapt to that, and you don't want to be too stiff up front as you will very easily overload the front tires when braking/turning.
But to clarify, we wouldn't be going
too heavy on the rear bias. We just would not use even rates as we do in other situations.
- Andrew