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Offline corgi

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Re: New gtd without DCC
« Reply #20 on: 12 December 2016, 16:12 »
The primary ride will be the same between a car with the same dampers but different sized wheels, the secondary ride will be worse for the larger wheels with lower profile tyres (assuming the side walls are of similar design)... how much worse, who knows.

Primary ride relates to the springs and dampers and how they move over undulations - typically high amplitude low frequency, secondary ride relates to how the car deal with small, high frequency low amplitude imperfections which are normally addressed by the flex in the tyre walls, The balance of primary v secondary ride is subjective but will depend on the spring rates, damper bound and re-bound and tyre wall height and stiffness...

With modern suspension and tyres on a modern car, I would expect that the ride will be at least "acceptable" for most tastes. I suspect you will find that it will feel a little more "jiggly" at low speed and no different at speed...
« Last Edit: 13 December 2016, 12:06 by corgi »
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