Date:         Thu, 20 Jun 1996 12:36:39 +1200
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         william.warburton/OU=tritec@dsw.govt.nz
Subject:      Re: performance tires

Hi,

>PS: Do Type II's slide, or roll first? IF roll, which tire lifts 
first? How do
>    you tell? How soon before the second tire lifts, and how do you tell?;-)

 :-)Oh boy, what a question (I think we may see a few skeletons
appearing from listmembers closets, here :-).

 Firstly, of course, it must depend on tyres and road conditions-
On cow-shit or snow you'll be waltzing in no time, on a newly wet
corner you'll slide. With soft compound tyres and dry road...I
don't know (and I'm not about to experiment, either :-).
 IMHO (hah!) the major handling problem with a type II is the high
roll centre that will get you rocking on your tyres and springs in
pretty short order. If you have to take sudden evasive action on a
fast road to dodge something going slower that you (OK- it's unlikely
but shit happens...:-) the the sudden S-shaped weaving will throw the
van one way and then the other: if the period of the weave matches the
rate at which the van is rocking you'll just keep going....
 Now, this rocking is damped by the shocks: which is presumably why
people upgrade them. How much difference does this make? Will
replacing the stock shocks in a type II with some sort of high
performance units transform the handling? Improve it a bit? make
**** all difference?

 Inquiring, if ignorant, minds wish to know!

Cheers,
	W.

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