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      04-21-2014, 08:04 PM   #41
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Originally Posted by exdos View Post
I've just revisited the beginning of this thread and I see that you had the car corner weighted. I really can't see how "static" corner weighting can work when in the dynamic situation it promotes aerodynamic lift, which alters the dynamic corner weights. If the front of the car is getting "light" during acceleration, then the ride height adjustments which produced the perfect static corner weighting are blown out of the window when the car is driven!
Why would corner balancing the car promote aerodynamic lift? Makes zero sense. All corner balancing does is make the center of mass fall on the same axis as the physical roll center. It does not affect ride height or "rake."

Does not compute.
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