Basic Chassis Set Up 2 - Springs, Shocks, Anti-Roll Bars and Bump Rubbers

The 2nd section on Basic Race Car Set-Up hosted by Grand-Am driver David Donohue and Jay O'Connell, Technical Director for Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing. Springs, shocks, anti-roll bars and bump rubbers are explained as well as tips on fixing understeer and oversteer problems.
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[@Treetop64]

My favorite part of these SiF videos is watching David Donahue reading cue cards. :P

[@kellienicolebrooksschettin6598]

Safe is fast is know about self preservation and always keeping it right at the top of the list when u spend so much time on the edge it...

[@meinmotorsportkanalschmit7513]

Dear Safe is Fast Team, you do a greate job, the videos are very very interesting for eveybody who is interessted in Motorsport!!! Regarding the shock absorbers I would like to ask you, that you can provide us(me;-) a deeper look inside the absorber and the relation of the technical details to the handling? Because I am exaclty at this point with my car. BR

[@josephelza6033]

Love these videos! Thanks for sharing

[@larryhernandez5062]

Great Educational Video Learned . Thanks

[@BLDalton85]

Thanks for these. Any follow ups are appreciated!

[@theman6785]

For racing sway anti roll bars are great. However, for street driving with potholes, bad roads etc., they are not the best rattle vehicle etc? Your thoughts overall?

[@rickjames5998]

so if i have a fwd that tends to understeer, should i put a better rear sway bar to correct this?

[@TheChannel1978]

No, if it understeers your problem is at the front axle and you should try to correct that first, before looking at the rear axle. It's at the end of the video, basically soften the front by either softening anti roll bar, dampers, springs or reducing ride height. That's the order you would do it in as well idea being changing as little as possible else. For example ride height changes a lot of other things, so you don't want to mess with it necessaritly

[@kellienicolebrooksschettin6598]

One of the really big things I learned was how tuning the cars differential can help the car turn u don't get that adjustment till u get to a real race car...so u don't know.

[@beachboardfan9544]

Why not run soft corner springs and hard heave springs?

[@elaxel1469]

I got a civic ep3 and the ride is superstiff what can I do to make it more comfortable? flexible or rigid springs?

[@ttiization]

A but higher ride height, softer springs. Try compounding 2 different rates of springs, so you can go soft, but right before you would begin to reach a dead stop on your suspension it keeps it smooth. Also, street cars are supposed to have street car suspension. Be smart, don't act like your civic needs a track suspension. Performance for a street car is being able to hook all 4 wheels on bad terrain. So a hard suspension is a big loss of performance for the road

[@maniclokofe4585]

so how to increase handling of the car to the ground ?

[@soto575]

with a new suspension... Springs, Shocks is the best and easy way to do it also you may want to lower it .. or with a better tiers but they are expensive ..

[@Carlos_RodriguesS2]

18 yaears of F1 on playstation and i'm still learning

[@RileyBanksWho]

Of course you are! Simulation and dealing with real forces are two entirely different things. You can't compare a video game with the real deal (coming from an ex hardcore gamer)

[@jaredalexander3403]

i have takin alot of info from these videos an applied them to iracing pc game has helped my lap times a bunch

[@dremr2038]

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