Originally posted by {Kontofosho}:
I guess I was not as clear as I wanted to be, when looking at a graph of a tires traction abilities, traction falls of extremely rapidly after it hits its optimal traction point, which is a little bit of slippage.

The stock svt places a huge amount of stress on the front tires, and under track conditions, the tires snow plow, which gives them drastically lower traction, that is why in many cases when people are out on track events, they feel they are going faster when they are going slower, and when they are going slower they are actually going faster, because when drivers are working harder they very often overwhelm the traction abilities of their tires on quick transitions.

As i said before, under track conditions the rear never skids, so therefore it has traction to give up, by keeping the front tires out of the "snow plow range", it is actually GIVING them traction.




You are wrong, you are taking grip away from the back of the car, which is what lets it rotate w/ the bar (this isn't necessarily bad for a very tight autoX course) if the front end doesn't grip, nothing you do in the back is going to gain grip up front, all you will do is balance it out so neither end has as much grip as it could.

Fix the front end, not the back if you want to go faster.

I'm not going to belabor the point, but I will put it this way, I have access to reams and reams of development data on the contour and contour SVT suspension; plus I work on a daily basis w/ one of the guys responsible for developing the thing in the first place (not to mention he did the 00 Cobra R and Focus SVT suspension tuning development as well)
Your statements go against fundamental vehicle dynamics; I don't know what else I can say.

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