Mark,
What do you think causes the especially high roll rate? Obviously soft
compression shocks make a difference but it must be something more
significant in this case. Interested in hearing your ideas...
Regards,
Alan Pozner
On Monday, August 16, 1999 4:40 PM, Mark Sirota [SMTP:msirota@isc.upenn.edu]
wrote:
> Justin Hughes wrote:
> > Yet I can attest that even with the optional rear sway bar, a stock
> > E21 has A LOT of body roll.
>
> I'm not talking about the amount of body roll. I'm talking about
> the roll rate -- the speed at which the body rolls. And in
> particular, the speed at which it contacts the bump stops (which
> results in an almost instantaneous change of roll center to the outer
> contact patches).
>
> You know the old adage, speed doesn't kill, it's the sudden deceleration
> at the end? Same thing here. It's the hard hit against the bump stops.
>
> Mark
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