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Thank you for your replies. Greg, I've had a read of the previous posts regarding ackerman - but none I came across discussed it in the context of a racing car. (Drifting was the closest, but still very different) Perhaps you could provide some of the arguments for and against negative...

Hi all, I've just bought a Formula Vee racing car, and one of the previous owners has moved the steering rack rearwards from its original position. I'm not sure if his intention was to straighten the steering rods from a loading point of view, and whether or not he considered the ackermann...

FeX32 and thirty35five, Thanks for your help. Could you please suggest some online resources or textbooks with which I could study tire load sensitivity, elastic/inelastic weight transfer, etc? Is "Race Car Vehicle Dynamics" by Milliken & Milliken appropriate, or perhaps some of Carroll...

Just to be sure we're talking about the same thing FeX32 - the cars are in the link below. I used to build them at that age too - I still do! You're right about Mugen, the first car in that video is one of theirs. For these cars the servo saver system in the steering linkage does the servo...

Sorry, I should have said - The application is a Radio Control competition racing car. Safety isn't the concern it is in full-scale racing! The smaller bearings replace the larger ones with inserts inserted into the hub as in the link...

Sorry GregLocock.. I don't understand, why are you saying the bigger ones are better? cibachrome - Ha, seems like she's beginning pretty well in ARCA though. I didn't consider wheel compliance - I've no experience with it. Thank you. I thought it would be favourable to use the smaller...

Hi everyone, I have the option of using 2 different sizes of bearings in the 4 wheel hubs of a racing car, through the use of hub inserts. However, I am unsure which of the situations below will results in a greater benefit to the car. 1) The smaller bearings (less unsprung mass) will allow...