if i had the money i would do it, but working a casual job and paying for uni stuff, food, petrol, going out, drinks etc does not leave much to save unfortunately.aza013 wrote:mmmmmm so you put a price on saftymaxleng wrote:i see..
wouldn't mind going to a adv driving course but there abit expensive
ps. i don't know if you made a typo twice, but it's 'turn' not turne lol
as for the typo thats just me I cant spell for sh*tbut yep I was not thinking about it at the time when I did that the "e" just slipped in there
For god sake!!! why you have to oversteer!!!!!
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Better late than never in answering the OP's "why is my FTO oversteering?"... but here are some notes from personal experience. I spent six months in oversteer hell (track driving)... Here's what I did to get there, and how I eventually resolved it...
First, I put a Whiteline adjustable swaybar on the rear... on its softer setting. This was all hunkey dorey, except for one specific handling horror - snap oversteer when shifting from hard cornering one way to hard cornering the other. It was near-instant, and I rarely caught it, no matter how hard I tried. Fun to watch, but I got pretty sick of wiping out the same course at the same place, again and again.
It got PARTLY better when I replaced that rear bar with a softer, non-adjustable Whiteline part. Still stiffer than the factory rear swaybar, but not as silly as the one that's now in my shed.
But there was one more tweak that got my FTO back to its bulletproof, predictable self... I set the adjustable rear shocks' "rebound" setting one click firmer (which also increased compression setting too, from the feel of it).
According to a local suspension pro who drives in the same events, that one click on the rear shocks got those dampers back to sensible operation - i.e. matching the new sway bar in the specific circumstance that was causing the snap oversteer. Until I did that, the car was compressing "past" the ideal point as weight shifted hard from one side to the other, and then kicking back... and that final point was where the rubber let go of the road.
Yep, my head hurt too... but I've not lost the back end once since then - well, not so's I couldn't catch it again!
Rich
First, I put a Whiteline adjustable swaybar on the rear... on its softer setting. This was all hunkey dorey, except for one specific handling horror - snap oversteer when shifting from hard cornering one way to hard cornering the other. It was near-instant, and I rarely caught it, no matter how hard I tried. Fun to watch, but I got pretty sick of wiping out the same course at the same place, again and again.
It got PARTLY better when I replaced that rear bar with a softer, non-adjustable Whiteline part. Still stiffer than the factory rear swaybar, but not as silly as the one that's now in my shed.
But there was one more tweak that got my FTO back to its bulletproof, predictable self... I set the adjustable rear shocks' "rebound" setting one click firmer (which also increased compression setting too, from the feel of it).
According to a local suspension pro who drives in the same events, that one click on the rear shocks got those dampers back to sensible operation - i.e. matching the new sway bar in the specific circumstance that was causing the snap oversteer. Until I did that, the car was compressing "past" the ideal point as weight shifted hard from one side to the other, and then kicking back... and that final point was where the rubber let go of the road.
Yep, my head hurt too... but I've not lost the back end once since then - well, not so's I couldn't catch it again!
Rich