Sentences with phrase «tire contact patch»

However, pillowballs implemented into tower bars still allow some chassis flexibility to better maximize tire contact patches for improved handling without wrecking ride quality.

What they have long needed has been a solid traction - enhancing system that maximizes tire contact patch and stability under demanding wide - open - throttle drag and road racing conditions.

The HiPerStrut system helps reduce torque steer and maintain negative camber during cornering to keep the all - important tire contact patch on the pavement.

You might be able to keep tire contact patches flatter on the surface to provide more «traction» and «cornering force».

The 2017 Subaru Impreza, available in showrooms as you read this, is all - new from the awd tire contact patch all the way up to the top of the surprisingly more stylish body.

By comparison, the 2015 Prius felt more like it had a hinge somewhere in the middle, with more body roll, tire contact patches losing adhesion more readily from the twisting older body.

As you stated in the comments, the bent front control arm threw your camber angle off by 3 °, which will reduce your tires contact patch, thus decreasing grip making it easier to slide.

Anything that increases the tire contact patch will increase the ability of the road to induce a torque on the wheel (and vice versa).

Sadly, driver education at the high - school level remains the oxymoron it's always been, so I figured I'd learn young Ike Kitman up early, come back home, and write a nice column about how much his dudeness learned about the basics of car control — tire contact patches, load transfer, proper relation to the tiller, all the good stuff.

The all - new F - PACE is no exception, as this target drove the development of every single component between the steering wheel and the tire contact patch in order to achieve the precision, response and linearity which define Jaguar steering DNA.

High lateral stiffness in the rear axle also helps with initial turn - in because lateral forces at the tire contact patches build very quickly.

G - Vectoring Control initiates a subtle transfer of weight to the front wheels and tire contact patches at the first millisecond of steering input.

Performance parts like our drilled and slotted disc brake rotors, composite pads, multi-piston calipers, or complete brake kits will get your car hauled down quickly, while our selection of sway bars, springs, shocks, bushings, and other handling performance parts for cars will help you maximize the tire contact patch for the most traction.