Curious on Body rigidity

[iGetMadAngle]

Im wondering what improving the body rigidity does to a drift car, keep in mind i tune my cars for understeer and oversteer. the best case it will let me ride the outside line better, but i would like some answers and proof

 

[FussyFez]

General consensus ages ago was that it generally increased stability and therefore understeer. The car moves around less and is less eager to rotate.

I haven't tested this recently but I remember it being previously discussed over on the tuning forum.

 

[shmogt]

General consensus ages ago was that it generally increased stability and therefore understeer. The car moves around less and is less eager to rotate.

I haven't tested this recently but I remember it being previously discussed over on the tuning forum.

I think it's different this time around. For race cars I never use it until a guy told me it made one of my tunes much more stable for him. I tried it on a crazy car I had been working on and it was much more stable. Just something different from understeer always like before. However, for drifting it's hard to say. I think if you had a car that was just impossible to drift, it might help.

 

[DolHaus]

Older cars tend to have a weird bit of body movement that can't be quite tuned out, its hard to describe or quantify but you get a little bit of unpredictability at the limit. Seems to occur on cars with body-on-frame design such as the older american muscle cars in my experience. In those conditions body rigidity might be the icing on the cake but otherwise it just seems to make cars a bit numb and understeery. Only way to know is try but I wouldn't do it as a matter of course

 

[iGetMadAngle]

i tested this, on suzuka, drifting and i notice that it keeps my back wheels behind the apex and it kind of powers me over and keeps me outside, i dont like the feeling of it just because i would rather get my wheels planted outside by myself.

 

[chengman]

Does it affect carbon chassis cars like the Enzo and F1?

 

[Skygrasper550]

I personally recommend Increase Rigidity on cars that are made from 1995 or older. I find the upgrade ideal whenever I would slap a drift tune in a muscle car, say a Dodge Charger 440 R/T '70 or a Ford Mustang Mach 1 '71. They really feel much more rigid and less wobbly, and so they're much easier to control around corners.

 

[funnytnt]

I do it on all my cars because then the car gets stiffer in the shell. Therefore i loosen up the wobblyness and am able to make the cars much smoother while going sideways. Im usally making the suspension 6/10 on the bar if the weight is equal on the front and the back, but then again its all about your preffrence.

But really its something you have to test out with your tunes.

 

[Mr Shakotan]

I prefer bad rigidity on some cars. Like ones that are really grippy or have spring rates that dont go lower than 8-9. It helps loosen up understeer. Most likely unless you have 2 of the same cars with same tune and setup you wont notice the difference.