Thread: Ideal Rake?
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      12-31-2012, 02:43 PM   #13
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Originally Posted by The HACK View Post
Seriously? All that careful corner weighting helps DYNAMIC weight transfer. When the car is either accelerating or decelerating, the "rake" of the vehicle will change accordingly. What happens to your carefully measured "rake" of the chassis when the car is entering a corner or exiting a corner? How often do you drive an entire course while doing exactly 200km/h?

Rake is irrelevant. It is FAR more important that the cross weight is as close to neutral as possible and the car is as low as the roll-center allows while still maintaining a reasonable front/rear weight balance. IF lift or aerodynamic grip is your concern, find ways to add or subtract downforce while minimizing the impact on drag, rather than fix the "rake." If your chassis is set-up right, "rake" will fix itself.

Rake is for "stance" crowd poseurs. You might as well lower the car PAST its roll center with massive negative camber in order to tuck your 10.5" F, 12" rear wheels shod with 205f/225r tires into your fenders.
I stand with The Hack on this one (and most of them that I recall). But what do we know?
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