Effects of suspension mods on handling

[Organisys]

Most of you will know this already, but here is a handy table of how suspension mods change the balance of a car.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racing_setup

Note 'Sway bar' is an ARB.

[tom26]

that is handy! worth printing that one!

[Fielder]

handy, but its on Wikipedia, so im not going to treat is as gosple.

[tom26]

good point.

[Organisys]

Yeah Wiki can be dodgy, but the article doesn't seem to have been defaced, and it all makes sense.

Try here too
http://www.turnfast.com/tech_handling/handling_tuningtable.shtml

[tom26]

ah... looks good too!

[...joe]

handy, but its on Wikipedia, so im not going to treat is as gosple.

good point.

true but forums are full of 'experts' as well.......

[mk2mark]

That's good and all, but I wouldn't make any changes to a car based just on that article - it's accurate to a degree but it doesn't say anything about any of the other effects that you will experience changing those things. If it was that simple there wouldn't have been volumes of books written on the stuff

[Organisys]

Yeah, it's a generalisation, every car is different etc.... but it does give people who are just thinking about suspension mods some pointers...