skid pad
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The skidpad number is mostly determined by the stickiness of the tires. Get really wide R-compounds or racing slicks and you'll be pulling big time G's. To a lesser extent, the front and rear balance of roll stiffness combined with camber settings and lower center of gravity effect skidpad numbers.
Anyways, it is only a single performance measurement (lateral grip at constant throttle) and in the whole scheme of things just as unimportant as something like a 0-60 time. Nice to know, but not the end all, be all, and definitely not a total measure of handling. It's better to have whatever setup that gives the particular driver confidence in the car, and that is different for everybody.
That being said, a stock S2000 exhibits mild-understeer on a skidpad. Theoretically you should try to increase front end grip, but most people complain about horrible oversteer (mainly bad control of throttle controlled oversteer) and changing the static balance to improve the skidpad would result in most people unanble to control a typical real-world high speed turn.
Anyways, it is only a single performance measurement (lateral grip at constant throttle) and in the whole scheme of things just as unimportant as something like a 0-60 time. Nice to know, but not the end all, be all, and definitely not a total measure of handling. It's better to have whatever setup that gives the particular driver confidence in the car, and that is different for everybody.
That being said, a stock S2000 exhibits mild-understeer on a skidpad. Theoretically you should try to increase front end grip, but most people complain about horrible oversteer (mainly bad control of throttle controlled oversteer) and changing the static balance to improve the skidpad would result in most people unanble to control a typical real-world high speed turn.
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From: Vegas Baby, Vegas
Originally Posted by switchcars,Sep 11 2005, 08:08 PM
I seem to remember seeing numbers for the AP1 and it pulled 0.81g on the skidpad.
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Another thing to remember is, like was mentioned before, the skidpad tells you very little about handling capability, just about maximum lateral grip. Polar moment of inertia and other such things aren't taken into account at all. IIRC, the best setup on a skidpad is a horribly simple chassis, a twin I-beam style. Obviously it doesn't follow that this is the best chassis for hanlding.
Just something to keep in mind.
Just something to keep in mind.
