Helping a civic to Oversteer?

**FenrirWC** · 16-01-2013 05:31 PM

Originally Posted by eren

What about some negative camber on the front wheels ??? lmao

was stated in the first post "Running -2 deg camber front"

Originally Posted by TbM

Increase Rear sway bar size
stiffen rear suspension
run doral tires on the rears

After stealing another friends 22mm swaybar for a 2 days over the weekend the problem has been pretty much solved. The thicker rear sway on its second adjustment has helped alot more than the one set adjuster that was previously on the car. after a bit more mucking around and now running 2mm toe out up front and 0 toe at the rear, re adjusted the dampers in the coilovers and including with the previous camber and castor the car is running much better (which means i can now focus back to my own s14) many thanks to the helpful suggestions. Almost tempted to go buy a civic of my own now

**Kenninho** · 17-01-2013 09:27 AM

I'd still set up the front to be lower than the rears, unless i've misread, the front is still higher than you're rear?

Turn in will be better when ur front is lower than ur rear

**DC2-PWR** · 17-01-2013 09:05 PM

Originally Posted by Kenninho

I'd still set up the front to be lower than the rears, unless i've misread, the front is still higher than you're rear?

Turn in will be better when ur front is lower than ur rear

Yes turn in will be better but you're putting more weight on the fronts by doing this. This then causes the ride to be a bit more bumpy, causing hang-time of the car staying in the air. Yes it takes micro seconds of at each time it bumps but then adds up everywhere around the circuit. Another issue is that you will cause more understeer of adding more weight to the fronts. The aim is to balance the car out for a soft-mild ride

I would love to add more info but these guys pretty much summed it up. I had the same issue of understeer but i went in depth by tuning my suspension and messing around with alignment. I added a splitter and an LSD which helped quite a bit. Driving style is also very important

Originally Posted by TbM

Increase Rear sway bar size
stiffen rear suspension
run doral tires on the rears

Originally Posted by butterfingers

even in over-steer, you are constantly attempting to under steer...

Only then will you have a true understanding of the four wheel drift...

+1 rep to you guys,

**.Dave** · 18-01-2013 10:34 PM

i found when at wakey my rear was fairly stiff and it oversteered alot, a little softer and it was fine, less oversteer but not so much under

but seems youve solved it