2012年2月27日月曜日

Lateral offset & thrust

As just only for experimental trial to check the frontal thrust on VW 1302 Super Beetle, 3mm thickness wood plate spacer insertion may be permissible, of course I know the material is not so adequate to be used for a long time, but the purpose to know the tendency of dynamic thrust balance moving slowly for very short distance.
Moving left frontal wheel parallel to outside means producing lateral offset to the left side in accordance with producing trust angle to the plus rotation when observed from upper side.

We must not ignore the change of scrub point displacement to inside, the phenomena is basically different from the actual adjustment moving strut upper mount outside and lower arm knuckle ball joint point also outside.
The left side tendency would be reduced actually if the wheel position might be moved to the same wheel position obtained position by experimental trial, because of the difference of scrub point.

Anyway several experiments would be repeated in future on VW 1302 Super Beetle for establishing the zero thrust angled vehicle, the ideal steering reaction would be obtained even with the flexible worm gear steering gear box and related linkages.

As the first attempt, some measuring frontal total toe direction while straight run was adopted as the basis adjustment of dynamic thrust correction on BC7 SUBARU Legacy LSi US model. The result was so effective as to exceed the stability of OPEL B-Vectra, expressing this new feeling as just "Comfortable Ride".

And the increase of rear total toe value by increasing rear right side Toe-in clarified the distortion of wheel construction and the uncomfortable ride obliged me to replace all the wheels, replacement parts are prepared and the operation would be performed on coming Thursday. I'm looking forward to experiencing the results.

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