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Suspension understeer/ oversteer?

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Old 03-03-2006, 03:32 PM
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Originally Posted by kapps
I don't think that's correct. There's no way the stock MINI is tuned to be neutral. It understeers like crazy. Even my H-Sport comp on the softest setting still allows understeer.
Maybe its a Cooper S thing? SS suspension on cooper = no oversteer, SS+ = some lift off oversteer if I try hard. But then again, oversteer/understeer isn't exactly easy to quantify, everyone have their own expectations and preference. Besides, what I said was the MINIs are tuned to be close to neutral, not completely.

Originally Posted by kapps

One thing to remember is that you will experience different over/understeer situations depending on how hard you turn the wheel. The snow has so little traction that if you just whip your wheel around quickly, you still might understeer with a huge rear bar. On the other hand, if you go into a constant radius turn and just accelerate to the point where you lose traction, then the rear will come loose.
Very true indeed
 
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