Tracking figures for lotus elise 111s (year 2000)
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You might find this useful http://wiki.seloc.org/a/Geo_Setups.
Increasing toe out gives a more 'pointy' car with great turn in but at the expense of the car having a tendancy to wander on the road unless you stay sharp. Tyre wear will also suffer.
Hope that's right scuffers as that's what I've found since experimenting?
Increasing toe out gives a more 'pointy' car with great turn in but at the expense of the car having a tendancy to wander on the road unless you stay sharp. Tyre wear will also suffer.
Hope that's right scuffers as that's what I've found since experimenting?
TIPPER said:
You might find this useful http://wiki.seloc.org/a/Geo_Setups.
Increasing toe out gives a more 'pointy' car with great turn in but at the expense of the car having a tendancy to wander on the road unless you stay sharp. Tyre wear will also suffer.
Hope that's right scuffers as that's what I've found since experimenting?
not till you get to extreams...Increasing toe out gives a more 'pointy' car with great turn in but at the expense of the car having a tendancy to wander on the road unless you stay sharp. Tyre wear will also suffer.
Hope that's right scuffers as that's what I've found since experimenting?
1mm out (total) is next to sod all, the issue with the Elise is that you really need to avoid toe in at the front, so setting toe to just the out side of zero is the safest way to do this.
toe in makes them subject to initial understeer, this if pushed either transitions to massive plough on understeer or snap into catastrophic oversteer (depending on what the driver does)
Tyre wear at these levels is insignificant.
Thanks Simon, I'm running about 2mm total out (I wanted to find out the effects of going further than the recommended 1mm) and love it on track; the car does like to follow every single bump on the road though. Tyre wear doesn't seem unacceptable though (the tyres - 888s - will be chucked with tread still on them).
TIPPER said:
Thanks Simon, I'm running about 2mm total out (I wanted to find out the effects of going further than the recommended 1mm) and love it on track; the car does like to follow every single bump on the road though. Tyre wear doesn't seem unacceptable though (the tyres - 888s - will be chucked with tread still on them).
not much point in running over 1mm unless you have something weird going on.Well the driver is weird!!!!
The figure came about as I just ran out of time when setting the car up (I'd been at it for two days!!). I thought I'd got it where I wanted it but when I checked it later it showed 2mm
I've been meaning to wind it back a bit but it drives fine and isn't killing the tyres so it keeps being pushed down the 'to do' list.
I should have started all this lark before having kids!!!
Incidently Scuffers - do you know anything about Formula Fords??
The figure came about as I just ran out of time when setting the car up (I'd been at it for two days!!). I thought I'd got it where I wanted it but when I checked it later it showed 2mm
I've been meaning to wind it back a bit but it drives fine and isn't killing the tyres so it keeps being pushed down the 'to do' list.I should have started all this lark before having kids!!!
Incidently Scuffers - do you know anything about Formula Fords??
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