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Old Jun 20, 2007 | 04:30 PM
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do you notice that when you take a sharp turn the back of the car wants to come around? well i do..

what would be the best mod to fix that? get super whide tyres in teh back?? like 265s?
Old Jun 20, 2007 | 04:33 PM
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If your car is stock, its tendency is actually to understeer. If you are stock, adjusting your driving is probably the fix. Check your tire pressures too and make sure they are close to factory recommendations.
Old Jun 20, 2007 | 04:37 PM
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dammit snarcher, the tc is not a drift-mobile. anyway, the only oversteer the tc might experience is throttle lift oversteer.

now, if you taking turns too fast on the crappy stock tires, you might be enducing spin or something...but no, the tc does not oversteer with some serious suspension tinkering.
Old Jun 20, 2007 | 04:38 PM
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isnt the back coming around oversteer?
since your front still has grip.
but yea what ^ said, fwd is safer to understeer = stock settings.
Old Jun 20, 2007 | 04:48 PM
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i believe what draxcaliber was saying is that snarcher shouldnt be experiening the oversteer due to the fact that we have fwd cars which, unless under extreme settings or tuned to do so, should experience understeer when pushed too far, which is NOT safer at all...you've lost your control over the steering when experiencing understeer, but yes, when the rear whips around and you maintian traction in the front, that is oversteer
Old Jun 20, 2007 | 04:51 PM
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yeah, i mean seriously, even with full trd suspension and hotchkis fr and rr sways, i don't even get oversteer, somewhere between neutral and understeer is all i have.

now, some people have said they get alittle oversteer when auto xing, but on the street, you shouldn't get oversteer unless your being stupid, which is a given with snarcher and his rear...

THATS IT! SNARCHER HASN'T TAKEN HIS SNOW TIRES OFF THE BACK OF HIS TC SO THE FRONT TIRES ARE STICKING AND THE REAR ONES ARE LOSSING TRACTION AND SLIDING AROUND!
Old Jun 20, 2007 | 05:01 PM
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hahaha either that or he has some trays stuck under those rear tires
Old Jun 20, 2007 | 06:34 PM
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The tC in no way oversteers easilly unless you are throttle lifting or braking during a turn. With the TRD rear sway on track setting, trd springs and decent tires I have to TRY to make it rotate when autoxing. It is pretty well balanced the way I have it, but I would like a little more oversteer on the track, which I will help with alignment a bit (front camber and toe adjustment). About the only time it will suprise me and oversteer on its own is if I get off time and upset the balance during a slalom. Stock, it understeers WAY too much like most fwd cars do. The idea with a fwd is to induce more oversteer. So again, adjust your driving if you are oversteering.
Old Jun 20, 2007 | 08:03 PM
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It's his car. Haven't you seen it? The one he rally's around that says Frankie Muniz along the side. I'd bet that thing oversteers like a b!tch.
Old Jun 21, 2007 | 04:48 AM
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i have hotchkis springs, the trd rear sway on the race setting, the dc front strut tower bar and stock tires and i have gotten oversteer before. i have come around a corner or two and had the back tires break loose a little bit. it's all been perfectly controlled though.
Old Jun 21, 2007 | 07:58 AM
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... you know what..?

i'm not even going to comment.



anyone that objects to me locking this.. just pm me.
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