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Physics. Be careful.jwawhite said:...It just feels like when I hit an irregularity in the road (on an apex) the car seems to slip opposite side of the turn.
Suspension Package Availabilityjwawhite said:Driving the 'Vette today on a twisty mountain road and it feels like the front end slides around. Feels like the car skips, am I correct in this? What's happening?
I'm gonna go out on a limb here because I'm no car suspension expert so one of the techs may come along and prove me all wrong but as an engineer I'm gonna do my best to explain why you shouldn't panic. First of all I wouldn't recommend letting tire pressure out. To do so prematurely wears the outer walls that aren't supposed to touch the ground. In addition you could cause the center to cave in, which would actually reduce the amount of tire on the road. So keep the tires where they are supposed to be, whatever it says on the driver panel. Second the tight suspension is made so that the car doesn't yawn or pitch in hard cornering. A side effect of that is that the suspension can not absorb all the hard bumps and transfer some of the energy to the car cuasing it to lift up. You can't violate physics and have it both ways unless your constantly adjusting the suspension. All of the suspensions, with the exception of the magnetic one, can not change fast enough to absorb the energy so the makers were left with a decision to make. They opted to make the car tuned for smotth or relatively smooth road so if you live up here where pot holes can swallow small dogs then your gonna feel the jump and if its during a turn its going to move the car a little. I dunno if you can but softening the suspension would fix that although that may be opening up a new can of worms that are unexpected and it would def cause handling to suffer during smooth road turning.Nevets2004 said:I have the standard suspension. So you're telling me the standard suspension on a Corvette isn't as good as my Pathfinder and Windstar? They have no skipping problems on the same roads at the same speeds Maybe I should let some air out of my tires? Is 30 psi too high? :confused
Same here. I have Z51 suspension and run flats. Never gets too loose just a split second bit of lateral movement if there is a bump in a turn then it recovers. I'm used to it.Nevets2004 said:Now you guys are starting to scare me. My Vette also skips around the turns when I hit a small bump, usually the expansion joints. My tires are original and haven't been moved since delivery. The arrows on the tires are pointing in the right direction and I also run about 30 psi. I thought the skipping was normal because of the tight suspension and I've never used run-flats before.