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<blockquote data-quote="The Necessary" data-source="post: 114721" data-attributes="member: 302"><p>After reading through the Autoworld thread and this thread again, I've picked up on something else; how foaming the car can 'magically' transform the handling; from understeer to no understeer; from no grip to limpet like grip; etc; etc. </p><p></p><p>Now, that's dangerous.</p><p></p><p>Things like understeer is built into the car (chassis/settings) to provide a margin of safety- to let you know when you have breached the limits. Now, after foaming, in addition to your crash structure becoming altered, your handling characteristics have been altered too! Or rather, of more concern is; will the vehicle react in the same way during emergency manouvers as it used to? Will the now 'higher limits' cause it to become, say, snappy and uncontrollable when the limits are breached? </p><p></p><p>So much to ponder.</p><p></p><p>Or maybe us non-foamers are just wussies!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Necessary, post: 114721, member: 302"] After reading through the Autoworld thread and this thread again, I've picked up on something else; how foaming the car can 'magically' transform the handling; from understeer to no understeer; from no grip to limpet like grip; etc; etc. Now, that's dangerous. Things like understeer is built into the car (chassis/settings) to provide a margin of safety- to let you know when you have breached the limits. Now, after foaming, in addition to your crash structure becoming altered, your handling characteristics have been altered too! Or rather, of more concern is; will the vehicle react in the same way during emergency manouvers as it used to? Will the now 'higher limits' cause it to become, say, snappy and uncontrollable when the limits are breached? So much to ponder. Or maybe us non-foamers are just wussies! [/QUOTE]
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