GPL- Ride hight

This has been discussed before however not to my satisfaction anyhow... I just did a bit of testing with the ride Height.. I set the front all the way up and did a few laps, then all the way down and did a few laps. I did the same for the rears. What I have found.... Front up rear down; Push on exit of corners with power Front down rear down; Loose on exit of corners with power Front up Rear up; loose entering a corner and neutral to push exiting Front down rear down; neutral entering and neutral to loose exiting First.. is this what is supposed to be happening? Second.. With both front and rear up I do laps around the Glen at about 1:08. But with all the other settings Im running in the low 1:06s. All these tests were done with 4 laps. So, My question is.. what are the effects supposed to be for the ride heights? and what are the actual effects in GPL (assuming my driving is bad)? The reason I ask is I'm starting to get the impression that the physics in GPL are not, or even close to, the physics of the real world. -- ========================================= Mike Barlow of Barlow Racing? MikeBa on the TEN network. Member of R.O.R. 1999 http://w3.ime.net/~marknjess/noflame.html ========================================= Racing online with the help of...... Race Communications Association http://members.xoom.com/RCA/toc.html Holodyne Engineering Mystic Music mikeba.vcf < 1K Download

The behaviour seems normal to me provided the spring, damper and rollbar settings are not changed. See comments below On Fri, 16 Apr 1999 13:44:49 -0400, Michael Barlow

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>This is a multi-part message in MIME format. >--------------89B637A38F5C943C7B871918 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > This has been discussed before however not to my satisfaction >anyhow... > I just did a bit of testing with the ride Height.. I set the front >all the way up and did a few laps, then all the way down and did a few >laps. I did the same for the rears. What I have found.... > Front up rear down; Push on exit of corners with power

The rear has more weight and the front less giving more grip at the rear and less at the front. When exiting a corner under power, understeer (push) will occur. Assuming you mean Front down rear up here. Oposite of above, more grip at the front and less at the rear. When exiting a corner under power the car will oversteer (loose) Higher centre of gravity which will lower the cornering speed. Actual effects during cornering will depend on the spring/damper/roll bar settings Lower centre of gravity which will increase the cornering speed. Actual effects during cornering will depend on the spring/damper/roll bar settings With a higher centre of gravity and all other settings the same you should expect to be slower.

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> So, My question is.. what are the effects supposed to be for the >ride heights? and what are the actual effects in GPL (assuming my >driving is bad)? The reason I ask is I'm starting to get the impression >that the physics in GPL are not, or even close to, the physics of the >real world. >-- >========================================= >Mike Barlow of Barlow Racing? >MikeBa on the TEN network. >Member of R.O.R. 1999 >http://w3.ime.net/~marknjess/noflame.html >========================================= >Racing online with the help of...... >Race Communications Association >http://members.xoom.com/RCA/toc.html >Holodyne Engineering >Mystic Music >--------------89B637A38F5C943C7B871918 >Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; > name="mikeba.vcf" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >Content-Description: Card for Michael Barlow >Content-Disposition: attachment; > filename="mikeba.vcf" >begin:vcard >n:Barlow;Mike >x-mozilla-html:TRUE >url:http://home.eznet.net/~mikeba >org:Barlow Racing >adr:;;;;New York;;USA >version:2.1 >title:CEO >note:Made the top 25% in the points race in the 1998 NROS >fn:MikeBa >end:vcard >--------------89B637A38F5C943C7B871918--