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Old 02-25-2002, 01:47 PM
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Petenis- Part of the traction roll issue can be that the car is being driven too hard into the corner on a high bite surface (should see a dark or even black groove around the track). Usually though it's that the front is biting too hard trying to "screw itself into the ground" and this "twitching" going into the corner is the sign of the imminent and dreaded traction roll. On the Trinity Cars it's easy to adjust for buy raising the roll center, which is to say that you raise the height of the ball studs that the front arm links connect to. On the Associated front end you have some problems because it's not so adjustable. Here is what I would try on your front end now that I have recently (4wks ago) figured this out: Put all of your spacer shims in the kingpin on top of the steering block just underneath the top arm. This has the same effect because you are raising the roll center at the steering block (it's the OPPOSITE of what it looks like you're doing due to the fixed position of the lower arm and its relationship with the wheel axle). This should reduce the traction roll tendency and if you still need a little more steering put 1 of the washers underneath the steering block.
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