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Shockerboy wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 10, 2019 8:25 pm

With the Hundreds of cars we have lowered over the years and having been in the suspension industry for 30 Years , i am yet to get a defining answer from manufacturers as to how far out the ride heights on standard cars ( from left to right ) has to be before they would call it an issue . BMW said anything less than 12 mm they consider normal. Of course on a lowered car 12mm will immediately make the car LOOK cock eye . .
The RS4 type chassis is most definately much easier to corner balance up perfectly compared to say a GOLF R or Audi S3 for obvious reasons . ( engine and motor in one corner )
Covkiller, did you balance the car to move weight forwards or rear wards, or to accomodate your weight ? what improvement did you feel after ?
What i was trying to say in the earlier statement is that a Standard RS4 should balance up perfect with the coil overs set at identical height from left to right , If adjustments were made to include the driver then normally the N S strut would be pretensioned to balance the drivers weight over to the N S .
My personal Race cars would be corner weighted to each track to increase grip on the wheel more likely to spin on exit of the corners . As always you will sometimes forfeit a few corners to improve a greater number of corners . we didnt corner weight to achive identical weight on each corner however as this might not be ideal on every track.
I agree that suspension set ups are very emotional and personal , not everyone is looking to achive the same results . One mans comfort is another mans poor handling car . One great handling car is another mans harsher ride nightmare .