Ideas for suspension

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Originally Posted by cyberguy

Because the side walls of the tire are harder than normal tires, it provides a better feeling but not less grip. Basically R1R are excellent in handling. Is that what you meant by "unloaded"?

It has nothing to do with the tires per se, basically FWD cars have a stiffer rear frequency than front. So whats happening, when you go into a corner, the outside front takes the load\(some people find it easier to use the term weight) and the outside rear loses its load\weight. Well enough load is transferred quickly enough and for enough of the front suspensions travel, you'll end up picking up a rear tire. So the more "grip" you give the car the more it'll pickup a rear tire, since the outside rear tire isn't really doing anything it generally doesn't hurt much.

The other issue that "could" be at play, is stability control is apply brakes to the rear of the car which will also cause a rear tire to lift. Rear suspension generally has quite a bit of anti-lift built into it, so when torque is applied to the suspension(hitting the brakes) the rear of the car will want to squat down. A easy way to test this is to put the ebrake on and gently try to move forward, you'll feel the rear squat down.

I don't fight rear tire lift on my road race car, its generally just something you have to deal with on FWD cars.