lift oversteer

[vwscir88@hotmail.com (The Hitman)]

the car has stock sway front and back. the springs are h$r sports, the lower 
the car about 1" to 1 1/2", went with boge turbo gases front and back. no 
stress bars. this is a combination i've used a thousand times but have never 
had this bad of an oversteer.


>From: "Christian Els" <tiAn@usiw.net>
>To: "The Hitman" <vwscir88@hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: lift oversteer
>Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 07:30:30 -0500
>
>Best way to tame that behaviour is to add front roll stiffness and take 
>away
>rear stiffness.
>
>What (anti)sway bars are you running?
>
>If stock try removing the rear, or adding a bigger front bar.
>
>If you are already running bigger bars at both ends, try going back to the
>stock rear bar with whatever front you have on now.
>
>The other thing you can do is try to adjust tire pressures to compensate,
>run a bit lower pressure out back and/or a bit higher pressure up front.
>This is a bandaid though, use this last...
>
>Cheers,
>
>
>Christian Els
>Columbia, MO
>87 16V
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "The Hitman" <vwscir88@hotmail.com>
>To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
>Sent: Monday, 26 August, 2002 03:14
>Subject: lift oversteer
>
>
> > now that stripe is lowered i have almost spun her twice. once merging on
>to
> > I90 from I270, i was going 75 and lifted off mid-corner to slow her
>alittle.
> > started to lose the ass end and had to step back on it to straighten her
>up.
> > the second time was much the same, just different exit ramps. whats the
>best
> > way (besides changing driving habits, thats not going to happen :D ) to
> > correct the oversteer problem? will stress bars help?
> >
> >
> >
> > So Sayeth The Hitman
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So Sayeth The Hitman
'86 "psycho 16v" scirocco
'88 "stripe" 16v scirocco *for sale*
<http://www.techography.net:82/brettsgarage>


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