Low Speed Oversteer

[Nelsy]

Greetings, everyone, just a quick question, i have my car nearly set up perectly, but i have one major problem. which is at low speed turns such as, the hairpin a midfield, my car has alot of oversteer, i just wanted any tips on tuning this low speed over steer out...
any suggestions are deeply appreiciated.

 

[Duke]

Hello, Nelsy.

Out of curiosity, and to help us help you, we need to know a couple things:

1) What kind of car, and

2) Oversteer when you are coming out of a turn, or going into it?

 

[halfracedrift]

Most likely is that you have way too much power in your car. (Nelsy DID say it's low SPEED corner)

You might be punching the gas too hard in the course of the corner. Ease off the gas a little.

 

[Boundary Layer]

hehe, would u mind posting your settings and the car?
i'd like to try the car out on monaco, it'd be perfect in the casino hairpin
sounds fun

 

[Nelsy]

thanks for the replies guys, first off umm yeah its oversteer comming out of the turn.
heres my car and setup spec. thanks for any tips guys..

Falcon XR8 Race Car (933hp)

SR 16.0 13.5
RH 57 58
DB 2 2
DR 8 4
CA 2.2 2.8
TA 0.5 1.0
ST 4 3

BB 18 16

LSD I 0 17
LSD A 0 53
LSD D 0 15

GR 4.444 Auto 31

DF 1.00 1.10
ASM 0
TCS 5

Tyres F=Medium
R=Medium Slick

cheers guys.

 

[Duke]

Well, OK, first thing to understand here: you're driving a torque monster. The stock Falcon will smoke its tires through 4th gear in a straight line. No amount of suspension adjustment is going to stop you from lighting up the rear end and spinning it; you'll need a very careful hand/foot on the throttle. Try staying a gear higher than recommended. If you drive with automatic trans, learn how to drive manual.

Here are some recommendations for the car though:

• Put the same tires front and back, and live with the uneven wear. Softer tires up front are making your problem worse.
• Set the LSD to something like 30/5/5. Right now you have it coming in quickly (low Initial #) and hard (high Accel #). This is guarnateed to overwhelm both rear tires and cause a snap spin if you tread on the throttle too hard.
• Set your rear camber to zero. It will be causing you high-speed understeer this way, and low-speed oversteer, because of the reduced contact patch and the high power.
• Leave your + front toe, but set your rear toe to zero. That's fighting you on high and mid-speed turns, making you try to dial out the high-speed understeer, which dials in low-speed oversteer.
• Try Bound settings like 7/5 and Rebound like 9/7. I see what you were getting at but I think you are allowing too much body motion with those soft settings, particularly with stiff springs.

Hope this helps! It's a fun car to drive, but the front tire wear really limits its usefulness.

 

[Nelsy]

thanks Neon, i have change my set up a bit now, and the car handles much better, i can manage with the slight oversteer now, but altogether i drives just about how i want it,
Thank you very much for the tips.

Falcon XR8

sr 16.0 13.5
rh 57 58
db 2 2
dr 8 4
ca 2.2 1.6
ta 0.5 0.5
st 4 3

bb 18 16

lsd i 0 30
lsd a 0 5
lsd d 0 5

gr 4.444 auto 31

df 0.98 1.10
asm 0
tcs 5

 

[Frmr97GXE]

Another thing that might help is making 1st and 2nd gears as tall as possible.

 

[Nelsy]

yay!, i finally got this car to handle exactly how i want it to. also the tire wear is pretty even now, the tires last about 4-5 laps, and i beat the Toyota GT1 Race Car in a 5 lap race.
i'll post the current settings for it later on today if you guys are interested...