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post Aug 4, 2003 - 9:00 AM
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Does anyone know how to reduce the understeer in the 6gc? I've lowered it with shocks, thicker front and rear sway bars and I have 2 strut bars but I am still getting a lot of understeer and I really hate it!.
I heard that getting a thicker rear sway bar might help. Does anyone know anything about this?
 
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post Aug 5, 2003 - 2:37 AM
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I just had my front wheels aligned the other day. He said that it was toed in 1degree. I had a real hard time getting on the alignment machine because my car is lowered with a kit so I kind of dont want to do it again and they only took the time to get some ramps and blocks out to get my car up because it was a slow day.

So the fronts should be have a little less pressure in them? I always thought that since the car is heavier in the front and lighter in the back and that the fronts should be pumped up more and less at the back. I understand your reasoning with the surface area of tires increase as pressure in the tires decrease. I guess I'll have to muck around with the pressures a little bit till I'm happy.

I got the sways put in a few years back by K-mac. I think that they make the bars on the spot. They had my car for 1 day and I picked it up in the evening. I am very happy with the sway bars and for the money, its the best mod for handling that I have spent. (better than shocks and springs)

I might ask them to make a thicker sway bar for the rear but someone told me that if its too thick, I'll start to lose the tail end easier and once that happens its pretty damn hard to get back on a front wheel drive car.

Posts in this topic
- SiKBOY   Understeer... it sucks!   Aug 4, 2003 - 9:00 AM
- - BlackSTX   I think it's just a characteristic of front-wh...   Aug 4, 2003 - 2:58 PM
- - GeEkBoY   yeah, a thicker sway bar in the rear will help. T...   Aug 4, 2003 - 4:32 PM
- - macavely   dont you mean oversteer? i alway thought front whe...   Aug 4, 2003 - 4:43 PM
- - kuya1284   QUOTE (macavely @ Aug 4, 2003 - 1:57 PM) dont you ...   Aug 4, 2003 - 5:02 PM
- - kuya1284   QUOTE (SiKBOY @ Aug 4, 2003 - 6:14 AM) Does anyone...   Aug 4, 2003 - 5:05 PM
- - SiKBOY   QUOTE (GeEkBoY @ Aug 5, 2003 - 6:46 AM) yeah, a th...   Aug 4, 2003 - 8:24 PM
- - GeEkBoY   when you have a higher than normal tire pressure, ...   Aug 4, 2003 - 10:35 PM
- - SiKBOY   I just had my front wheels aligned the other day. ...   Aug 5, 2003 - 2:37 AM
- - SpedToe169   You'll almost always want to run higher pressu...   Aug 11, 2003 - 6:15 PM
- - SiKBOY   Is it possible to change the camber on the 6th Gen...   Aug 13, 2003 - 3:57 AM
- - Inferno   Good luck with getting that corrected.   Aug 13, 2003 - 11:51 AM
- - SiKBOY   dont worry, I did a search and found it.   Aug 14, 2003 - 10:55 AM
- - SpedToe169   There is some adjustment when stock. I have the f...   Aug 15, 2003 - 12:38 AM
- - KAMiX   I'm not going to get technical like the rest o...   Aug 15, 2003 - 5:32 AM
- - SiKBOY   I am getting a 4 wheel alignment done tomorrow and...   Aug 15, 2003 - 10:19 AM
- - Matthew   sounds to me like you are experiencing TORQUE STEE...   Aug 15, 2003 - 5:02 PM
- - kuya1284   QUOTE (GT2GT4 @ Aug 15, 2003 - 3:02 PM) sounds to ...   Aug 15, 2003 - 5:10 PM
- - Matthew   yea i dunno when i first got my gt i had torque ...   Aug 15, 2003 - 5:20 PM
- - SpedToe169   Ray is right, its not torque steer at all. You ne...   Aug 16, 2003 - 4:55 AM
- - Matthew   i know what the difference is i was just saying ...   Aug 16, 2003 - 5:46 AM
- - GeEkBoY   just one other question SiKBOY do you have a LSD?...   Aug 16, 2003 - 1:02 PM
- - SiKBOY   Thanks guys for the suggestions. I dont think i ha...   Aug 17, 2003 - 1:08 AM
- - kuya1284   QUOTE (SiKBOY @ Aug 16, 2003 - 11:08 PM) Thanks gu...   Aug 17, 2003 - 2:35 AM
- - FireinDC   is lsd a good thing? what dose it do?   Aug 17, 2003 - 3:06 AM
- - Matthew   LSD is a VERY good thing lets say for instance th...   Aug 17, 2003 - 3:57 AM
- - SiKBOY   Nah, I dont have LSD. Once the cv shaft popped out...   Aug 17, 2003 - 9:17 AM


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