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Originally Posted by Highrev1
Thought I would bring this back up top and start a new discussion...
We are going to discuss why lowering a car acutally increases body roll...and can allow for worse camber curves than stock... Why does the body roll more? Well you are lowering the Center of gravity, but also to roll center. You in theory want to be reducing how much weight gets transfered to the outside tires. Rember the most traction your car can make is when it is sitting in a flat parking spot. As weight is added to a tire traction is increased at a decelerating rate. The more you can balance that weight between tires the more traction can be made.
What you are in effect doing when you lower the car is acutally lengthing the distance between the Center of gravity and the roll center on the car.
So unless you compensate for that with stiffer springs your car will have more body roll. Also if you go too low, under compression you can acutally go into a positve camber situation  Bad for a MacStrut Car. Stolen from here
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OK this \/ is why I suspect you think BOdy roll is an issue right more of a feel thing than anything?? THis is not from you but from someone else.
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Originally Posted by Unknown
I don't like the feel of the body roll is the main issue.
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Is it more a felling you have than anything?
I will elaborate on WHY body roll doesn't tell about handling, gimme a minute I am still at work and have to do some
