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Re: 'Pushing' the front end??

To: roadsters <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: 'Pushing' the front end??
From: shifty <shifty@best.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 1999 11:32:57 -0800
Is your front end bottoming out on the bumpstops?

Leigh Brooks
San Francisco

> From: Daniel Neuman <dneuman@stars.sfsu.edu>
> Reply-To: Daniel Neuman <dneuman@stars.sfsu.edu>
> Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1999 10:35:39 -0800 (PST)
> To: datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
> Subject: 'Pushing' the front end??
> 
> Hello All,
> I have a handleing question for everybody.  Sense I redid the rear end
> and cut my rear bump stops to the 'improved street version' from Bob Sharpes
> manual I have noticed a change in how the car goes around corners.
> I have the comp springs and swaybar upfront with the stock bumpstops.
> Now when I go around corners it feels like the rear end is 'pushing'?? the
> front end of the car and causing the car to turn wider than before or in
> extreme cases the front tires lose traction and slide where before pulling
> the same stunt they would not??
> Is there a name for this condition?/ Oversteer?/ Understeer??? I am
> hoping that cutting down the front stops will fix this??
> 
> Daniel 69 2000
> SF CA
> Its the big weekend.. old engine getting pulled out....
> 
> 


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