Understeer fixed!

Old May 4, 2007 | 10:10 PM
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Understeer fixed!

YES! Understeer is not so bad anymore

BACKGROUND STORY:
Me and the rest of my Senior class were going to the beach so I decided that it would be a good oppurtunity to learn how my car drove under highway circumstances. The beach was roughly about 60 miles away and I thought there was something wrong with the fuel system because when I checked the manual, it said I had a 17 gallon tank and when I filled up from almost empty, the gas pump stopped at around 13 gallons. o.O That and when I had been inputting people's numbers into my system(NEVER DO THAT WHILE DRIVING! ambient noise makes for stupid inputs. I had to try at least 12 times to input a buddy's number) and had left it in idle(air conditioning) in the thirty minutes i had been sitting in the car, the gas meter went down about a little less than 1/8 of a tank! So I thought a quick fix might be inflating the tires because i had thought they were a little low.

The Fix:
I waited for my tires to get cooled down and then filled them with air. But when I did it, I noticed that my front right tire was @ 32 PSI versus my left @ 34. I filled them all to 34(i figured they werent "cold") and then drove home to get a few things. NO MORE COUNTERSTEERING FOR HARSH UNDERSTEER. before, I had the same problem as a lot of users on this forum where I had to deal with harsh understeer to where I had to constantly apply pressure towards the left because the car would head right. I guess something small like that can really affect a FWD car?

I hope this string is of use to you, it worked for me
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Old May 4, 2007 | 11:28 PM
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On the race car we make adjustments by the half pound or pound

Many of us here run 36 front 34 rear for cold pressure
Helps more with the understeer
Install a Cusco lower frame brace for better-flatter cornering

As for the gas guage- low light comes on with approx 3 gallons remaining
they 17 gal is approx capacity and is not all USEABLE fuel
may not pick up the last gallon or so, but I have put 16.3 in once
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