TimPotter

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ok, negative kick up. Maybe I am confused, but Anti Dive = Postive Kick up right ? we on the same page here ?

Jon Kerr

iTrader: (17)

Anti dive is the opposite of kick up. Think of it like this. Anti squat has the front of the rear arms higher to keep it from squatting as much. Anti Dive has the front of the front arms lower so it won't dive as hard under braking.

mo

iTrader: (7)

\ = kickup
/ = antidive

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STLNLST

iTrader: (32)

Last weekend I added antidive to the car to help with a huge sweeper and the car was dialed. Before I added this the car would push on power and when I'd let off to make the turn I lost too much speed which in turn made for slower lap times compared to the other racers.

STLNLST

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answer your phone when DADDY calls sucka!!!

HarshGuy

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Dude ...you guys are room mates, just knock on his door GEEZEZ!!!

RKeasler

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Are you running low roll centers and what about the rear anti-squat any?

Jay Dub

As with any adjustment on a car, it is going to work differently for different people (setup, driving style, particular track, etc.). In general the anti-dive in the front (anti-dive is a term usually reserved for this adjustment on the front of a car, when this is done on the rear it is usually refered to as pro squat) of the car is going to help keep the front end flatter thru a turn because each side of the suspension is effectively binding against the other. Also, the car will transfer less weight fore and aft under acceleration and deceleration. helping to keep the car flater. This combined with the static change in castor will most often give- like MO said " less steering in, more steering out." One thing to remember is that any adjustment taken too far will inevitably give results opposite of what you expect or desire.-Jeff

STLNLST

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I'm only running low roll centers in the front. So what we have been doing is taking off the riser plates raising it up 1mm in the front but in the rear of the front plate raise that up 1.5mm giving you .5mm of antidive.

I very rarely run anti squat. I only run it in very loose conditions though.

ottoman

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We found that 1mm anti dive generally gives the car more steering ... carpet foam.

So who's going to Vegas? It will be nice to finally meet some of you guys
Nick is running mod foam and mod rubber... we haven't run mod rubber since the Novak was a rubber tire race this should be interesting

Jon Kerr

iTrader: (17)

I stand corrected. I was backwards in my thinking. Maybe something I want to play with some time to see how I like it.

Jon Kerr

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You know I'll be there. I know PW and Teemu will be too. I actually haven't looked too closely at the posted list of names yet. Not too sure who else will be there.

bender

iTrader: (4)

When you put anti-dive on the front aren't you also reducing caster which should give you more turn in?

I tried the 2 degree caster for the first time on the weekend and was really impressed- I had so much low speed turn-in that the rear kept on sliding out!
It took me the whole race to learn how to cope with it (I had been used to the car understeering into turns) - my fastest lap was the last lap of the race!

In off road more caster or kick always seemed to give me more turn-in; it's confusing when it appears to be the opposite with on-road cars

I have a question: what is everyones opinion with regard to the internal transmission ratio (17T vs 20T). I don't like using big spur gears so I want to run one no bigger than 90T but unfortunately you can't mesh small enough pinions in order to get the right ratio's I need.

If I switch to the 17T pulley this will fix the problem, but will it have other effects?

In off-road I always felt than higher internal ratios (i.e 2.5:1) gave more acceleration than lower internal ratios (i.e 1.8:1). Plus running a smaller layshaft pulley and smaller spur reduces transmission weight slightly.

Any thoughts or theories?

MattW

Yup, just run the 20t

We went through it all when the mission first came out, it was just better with the 20. Even with the same overall ratio, the 17 just seemed to give loads of acceleration, but sod all top end. The 20 was much better.

Cole Trickle

???

Thanks