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Old 10-27-2017 | 03:55 AM
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Originally Posted by 30Tooth
My 0.02€.

As someone rightly wrote, weight transfer only depends on CG height, track width (or wheelbase if you are calculating braking and acceleration) and acceleration (speed a that moment). Having no suspension doesn't matter to weight transfer, it's the dragster example. That car uses the weight transfer of everything past the engine to help plant the rear tires. That length is tuned so it barely lifts the front wheel (zero weight on the front wheels,everything on the rear) but not so much the car is upset aerodynamically (front pointing up) or has to ride on the wheelie bar adding another point to take load of the rear tires.

More droop means more chassis motion which can be good up to a point, different droop front-rear means one end will provide more weight to the other, the one with more droop of course.

Droop is good that doesn't make the suspension stiff during most of the travel. Have you imagined your 1:1 car ridding on the bump stops every turn?
When watching Renault Clio racing they often lift the inside rear wheel when cornering fast. They obviously don't have set screws to adjust droop but maybe shock length. You would think this was an undesired trait?
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