Vs chassis setup

For road racing and autocrossing, the ideal left weight percentage is 50 percent. This makes the cornering force balanced from left to right and offers the best performance overall. However, many cars cannot make the 50 percent left-side weight percentage due to driver offset.

Still, it is a worthwhile goal to strive for 50 percent left-side weight. Rear weight percentage for road racing and autocrossing is less definite. The more power a car has, the more that static weight over the drive wheels helps acceleration off the corners.

Additionally, it is much more difficult to change rear percentage much, since rear weight is mostly a design function.

It still pays to be thoughtful about weight placement fore and aft in your car. The only way to change the static weight distribution percentages is to physically move weight around in the car. Jacking weight will not alter the left side or the rear percentages. To calculate cross-weight percentage, add the RF weight to the LR weight and divide the sum by the total weight of the car.

Cross-weight is also called wedge: If the percentage is over 50 percent, the car has wedge; if below 50 percent, the car has reverse wedge. More wedge means that the car will likely understeer more in a left turn. The advantage to wedge is that the left rear tire carries more load, so the car drives off the turns better. Click to expand JWD Member. Short answer is "No, the chassis does not care if it's on low cross or high cross. The longer answer is "There is a difference between handling well, being fast and maximizing speed potential.

W5R New member. XXX 40 said:. Chassis built after were designed to use the tires differently, older chassis used the LR'RF more after they made a change to use 3 tires, thus how older chassis liked a harder LR versus todays requirement for LR's While your kart may bite better with a low cross setup it will be lazy, imo go with higher cross, nose, LS and make changes to the front end geometry for force more bite, also change up your tire program for no bite situations.

Thanks again everyone. Ive been having one heck of a time getting a grip on this chassis. There was only one night this year where it worked really well and was fast and it was a night where we got a ton of rain 2 hours before the race and had a good bit of bite.

I do not have the tire program to make that much bite to "force" the chassis to work, nor do i believe you should rely on tires to do all the work. I know a lot of guys do this and have been very fast but it is my personal belief that the chassis should be right first before you go fooling with tires.

Any advice is greatly appreciated folks! Thanks again. Don't get me wrong, I know there are more important now than ever. I guess what I meant to say is making sure the chassis is working right and or at least in the ball park before fooling with tires. As for my case, Im not sure the best tires in the world was gonna fix my issue Lol. I raced for 15 years without a single cut tire or a drop of prep and set track records and won many championships.

Now I come back after 10 years and Im being told that the basics no longer apply? This new chassis Im running is so loose every night I damn near spin out. Since chassis adjustment no longer mean anything, who can tell me what special tire secret is going to "fix" my severe loose condition? What is going to keep me from chewing up rear tires every night? Is it only the high cross set ups that rely soooo much on tires now?

Will the low cross help me get back to the way it was in the old days Lol? Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? VZ Chassis. History Talk 0. General info Being a successor to the VS Chassis , the VZ Chassis retains several aspects from its predecessor; it has the short 80mm wheelbase, and is equipped with the same gear set, terminals, battery switch type and propeller shaft.

Instead, each VZ Chassis kits now includes a separate low-friction plastic bearing set , which minimizing power loss What set it apart from other chassis is that the VZ Chassis comes with a user-removable front bumper, which is attached to the main chassis frame with a pair of truss screws.

Despite being equipped with the carbon pinion gear by default, the VZ Chassis can be equipped with any of the 8t pinion gears. Categories Chassis New-generation chassis. Universal Conquest Wiki. Chassis Data. Ground Clearance. Driveshaft Length.

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