Re: V8 quattro tyres

[Frank Deutschmann <fhd@interport.net>]

Eliot Lim sez:
> you're not missing much i assure you.  the extra unsprung weight
> was nasty.. it made the car feel 1000 pounds heavier and the
> ride was certainly more thumpy, meaning that you had to reduce 
> the tire pressures a little to make things bearable, to the
> detriment of steering feel and handling sharpness.

I'm missing something: I thought that inboard brakes were used to reduce
unsprung rate; with the rotors mounted on the chasis, and not the suspension,
they are then sprung weight.

-frank
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