On 19/8/20 10:23 am, AMuzi wrote:
> On 8/18/2020 6:43 PM, wrote:
>> AMuzi:
>>
>> Corvair
>>
>> The Corvair had a Front/Rear weight difference that
>> definitely warranted the big difference between
>> recommended front and rear cold tire pressures.
>>
>> The cars I'm talking about are somewhere in between
>> that extreme, and the other: rear- and all-wheel drive
>> sports sedans with almost no(less than 55/45) front-rear
>> weight bias.Â* The last time I checked, a typical BMW
>> F/R weight split is like 51/49%. Yet recommended
>> front/rear pressures differ by 5psi.
>>
>> My Honda Accord, for example, is F/R: 54/46% axle
>> weight split.Â* Some 'econoboxes' venture toward 60/40,
>> yet for the Accord and those cars, a single pressure
>> figure, for all tires, is specified on the door frame placard.
>>
>
> And all those have different suspension designs, rates, tire sizes,
> front end geometry, body roll or lack thereof and so on.
>
> You're isolating one very small aspect of 'auto handling' which is a
> very large area.
>
Yep, way too complex an issue to be isolated to one specific aspect. You
need to look at the car as an entity - and that would, of necessity, be
from an engineering perspective.

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