Originally posted by E_SolSi@Feb 23 2003, 12:52 AM
understeer is also called "plow"... basicly under heavy cornering your car will tend to push straight twards the outside of the turn
understeer is when the rear of the car is prone to kicking out slightly under hard cornering
FWD cars are designed with a tendancy to understeer when they exceed their cornering limits
with the H22 in the engine bay you now have more weight in front of the axles as well as more weight period
so this will magnify the amount of understeer
basicy if you were to throw the car into a hard cornering situation the handling would not be sharp and precise... instead you would experience wheel slide similar to trying to corner hard on wet roads
you can use higher strength springs to compensate for the added weight (batery relocation anf CF hood will help slightly... not nearly as much as people make it seem)2
the car can be fine as a daily driver... it will only suffer under HARD cornering (autoX, road course, twistie roads.....)
there are many threads where this has been covered