How Does Ride Height Affect Your Drift Car?
Is There a General Rule of thumb For Tuning Ride height?
Are there any other things a new Drifter should know about Ride Height?
Lowering the ride height does lower the center of gravity but if you lower it too much the car will try to "roll over itself" so that's defeating the purpose of you even lowering it. I always go anywhere between -10 and -15 mm of lowered ride height (varying per vehicle) because it will still have some travel and won't bottom out the second you steer into a corner but the car will transfer weight a bit more evenly.
What is Spring Rate?
How does the spring Rate affect your Drift Car?
Is there a General Setting That you use?
Are there any other things a new Drifter should know about Spring rates
Spring rate is the amount of force the actual coil spring carries. For example, a coil that is stiffer will "carry" more weight than a coil that is softer.
This may seem confusing but try to read into
this Just because it "carries" more weight doesn't mean it's better for the application. Usually you will want (depending on the vehicle) a set up that is stiffer than stock when building a vehicle for drifting/racing applications. I know this isn't always true because my mustang gt set up for drifting came with a 9.2 or 9.0 kgf/mm in the front and I thought that was entirely too stiff! The car just wanted to understeer. But mostly due to the fact that the rear wasn't too far off from that. If you want more forward bite then keep the numbers (Front and rear) a bit closer but for drifting you want it to have forward and cornering capabilities so one end
sometimes can be stiffer than the other and you will gain more grip on the softer end.
My Mustang set up now is 9.3kgf/mm in the front and 5.8kgf/mm in the rear..and granted that seems like a big difference, it gives the car more grip in the rear (where you need it most) to help control the slide more..other guys will probably enjoy these numbers being swapped around but then you suffer more understeer going into the turn. It all just varies on the driver at this point. NEVER just throw some crazy super soft/super hard springs on because gradual (increments of like 0.5) can be much more rewarding to actually understand HOW the car is reacting so you can learn to dial in your own set ups.
What is Dampers (Compression & Extension )?
How do they Affect Your Car?
is there a General Setting You use For Dampers?
Are there any other things a new Drifter should know about Dampers ?
Dampers gauge the rate that the actual cartridge travels. The cartridge is what reduces the coil's ability to just bounce up and down indefinitely. It "dampens" this effect and controls this motion more evenly so the driver doesn't complain about going over a bump and it bounces up and down and up and down.
Think of damper compression as how the suspension reacts when it collapses. You go over a speed bump and what does the car want to do? Shove all the weight it can up front which lowers the active ride height for a split second. When it gets to the end of it's travel, that is the compression motion. If you set the compression number higher (from 4 to 5 to 6 to 7, etc.) it will go through this process must faster.
Damper extension is like the rebound of that. What goes up must come down. But in this instance, what goes down must come back up. If you set the extension number higher, it will go through this process must faster. It will "pull" the weight off this area and evenly distribute it back to it's original position after you have exited the speed bump. The lower the number, the longer it will take for the weight to "pull" itself off. So I usually have my rear at least 1 lower than the front so the weight can "stay" over the rear axles as I'm corning, which increases driver control due to more grip.
What are Roll Bars?
How do Roll Bars Affect your?
Is there a General Setting You use When Tuning Roll Bars?
Are there any other things a new Drifter should know about Roll Bars ?
Roll bars are tricky. Roll bars are (called various things) Anti-Sway bars, Stabilizer bars, all it is essentially is keeping vehicle more controllable around corners. The bar connects from left to right and as you go into a corner, if you turn left, where does most of the weight try to go? On the driverside front tire. So now that tire is super stressed out and wants some relief..well it can't do it on its own so this is where the roll bar comes into play. As that right tire is collapsing in suspension travel, your left front wheel loses a lot of that weight and has less grip. The roll bar tries to "even this out". It twists as the weight becomes uneven to produce a great force on the left front wheel to shove it back down onto the road so you can have more grip.
It can only do so much but can't fully overcome the cornering effect. If the number is too low (closer to 0)..just try it and see what happens
..and if the number is too high..then..I'm not sure how to explain this one. But following this is a quote from wiki
Wiki
Anti-roll bars provide two main functions. The first function is the reduction of body lean. The reduction of body lean is dependent on the total roll stiffness of the vehicle. Increasing the total roll stiffness of a vehicle does not change the steady state total load (weight) transfer from the inside wheels to the outside wheels, it only reduces body lean. The total lateral load transfer is determined by the CG height and track width.
The other function of anti-roll bars is to tune the handling balance of a car. Understeer or oversteer behavior can be tuned out by changing the proportion of the total roll stiffness that comes from the front and rear axles. Increasing the proportion of roll stiffness at the front will increase the proportion of the total load transfer that the front axle reacts and decrease the proportion that the rear axle reacts. This will cause the outer front wheel to run at a comparatively higher slip angle, and the outer rear wheel to run at a comparatively lower slip angle, which is an understeer effect. Increasing the proportion of roll stiffness at the rear axle will have the opposite effect and decrease understeer.
Link Under "Main functions"
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