Name: CORTEX DIVE SQUAT - /ENGINEERED
Uploaded: 2021-05-03T18:09:09.567243+00:00
Duration: 808 s
Channel: Scott Schlichter

Scott Schlichter

Too much drive and you're losing energy. Too little and you'll slide into a wall. We'll let him explain...


Learn on Monday, wrench smarter on Sunday. Today we're learning about how to improve your acceleration and braking through managing your car's squat/dive, taught by Cortex Racing founder and Head Engineer, Filip Trojanek!



Introducing a NEW series on /DRIVE, aimed at educating you to build a faster, better, more reliable car:  /ENGINEERED. We want to empower our fellow enthusiasts to know more, and do more, by learning from some of the best engineers in the game.

Too much drive and you're losing energy. Too little and you'll slide into a wall. We'll let him explain...Learn on Monday, wrench smarter on Sunday. Today we're learning about how to improve your acceleration and braking through managing your car's squat/dive, taught by Cortex Racing founder and Head Engineer, Filip Trojanek!Introducing a NEW series on /DRIVE, aimed at educating you to build a faster, better, more reliable car: /ENGINEERED. We want to empower our fellow enthusiasts to know more, and do more, by learning from some of the best engineers in the game.

 when you have too much of those things, your car just sucks.

 The weight transfer from the front suspension to the rear

 How do you adjust the anti dive of a suspension to keep the

 stiffening up your dampers can have negative consequences on

 The angle of the torque arms is irrelevant and it doesn't even

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 when you have too much of those things, your car just sucks. Mm.

 The weight transfer from the front suspension to the rear suspension is going to be delayed, which is useful for drag cars where the weight transfer is happening at a slightly delayed rate.

 How do you adjust the anti dive of a suspension to keep the front end from dropping and scraping on the ground? Or how do you adjust the rear pickup point to achieve a more consistent ride height?

 stiffening up your dampers can have negative consequences on your handling especially when cornering. It's important to get a good set of shocks on your car because it's possible to do some tuning.

 The angle of the torque arms is irrelevant and it doesn't even matter where it's attached on the rear axle, we just care about the length of it and it's the length is we know that the instance center is somewhere