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Old 03-19-2004, 10:19 AM
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Yes, I understand it seems counter-intuitive.

All I can tell you is this.... what's good for a Miata is not necessarily what's good for a Subaru.

A Subaru chassis is NOT a traditional handling balance vehicle. It performs best through application of traction, not through management of lateral grip.

There are a lot of counterintuitive setup issues with transitional handling on Subaru AWD vehicles... just kind of a weird fact of life.

Very simply speaking, a Subaru acts like a FWD (a la VW) under braking, and like a RWD (a la BMW) under acceleration. I mean this in terms of both handling balance and chassis behavior.
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Old 03-19-2004, 10:31 AM
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Okie Dokie...good info to have.

Thanks!
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WOW that is alot of info... I never knew that Subaru body's were so diffrent than other cars... Cool
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Between these two we are going to have the best handleing cars on the planet.
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Old 03-20-2004, 06:28 AM
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Between these two we are going to have the best handleing cars on the planet.

What, we don't already?! I'll get right on that!!!!!
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What, we don't already?! I'll get right on that!!!!!

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