Front Suspension Geometry| EP. 3 Ackerman & Toe 

This is incredible, congratulations on your dedication, your videos about suspension are fantastic, the video should have many more views, thank you for your knowledge.

No, I'm neither drifter nor racer. Just came from Google search for some front wheel "drag/bump" while cornering at daily situations after heightening my car a bit and put some wheel spacers. And I really do appreciate how much home work have been made to make this video, how many hours of practicing on track was put behind all of this. And to put it simple visual, with less "dry theory" - just golden.

Thank you very much for dumbing this down for us all. Great info.

Great content man I really appreciate the time and effort you've put in 🤘

Such great and informational content, thank you!!

Great display, great explanation. I was really stuck on ackerman but you absolutely nailed explaining it. Cannot thank you guys enough for putting this together!

Another great video guys. Ackerman was the one thing I was really unsure with on my z (wisefab) bought before I knew about you guys 😔. I now have a better understanding of it so thank you and keep the awesome content coming.

Best explanation ive heard yet. Cheers

I lot of information man, we thank you for your time! Awaiting for the next episode!

your a walking genius ive learned so much throughout this series

Great explanation. Crazy how deep you can go talking with this

Amazing! You're killing it

Awesome video guys the rig demonstration was massively helpful!!

Absolutely top notch info, I appreciate the sharing of your knowledge

Bro such a great video, thanks for taking the time to make this and with such a great visual representation.

really appreciate you making this video. I'm sure it was allot of work!

Thanks for acknowledging front and rear rack!!! Helps

Holy crap! That’s A LOT TO ABSORB!!!! Great vid!!!!!!

Amazing videos keep them coming 👍🏻👍🏻

Good explaination. Thanks for the effort.

I'm in the process of doing my now thanks so much helped me loads

Great stuff!

thanks for video. you are better and better in explaining this stuff :)

Excellent demo

GREAT VIDEO!! THANKS!!

Great video thanks.

Awesome !!

Thanks for great video

Just found this, great content! My car is a bit weird, steering rack is in the back but the steering arms (mounted on the shock (mchpherson)) are pointing forward so a lot of rack offset

It would be nice to see how this setups affect bump steer, thanks!

Great visual representation and explanation! I'm trying to apply to a racing Go-Kart with no suspension and a solid rear axle. I race on road courses like Daytona, Road America, and Mid-Ohio where corner speeds are high and long straights. We have a king pin bolt, steering arms, and an attachment point to the steering shaft. We are currently using parallel steering. Since karts have no suspension, they are dependent on the unloading the inside rear tire and weight transfer to promote good cornering. For front end adjustments, we have caster, camber, and toe. We can also move ballast around for weight distribution. Would the kart benefit from Anti Akerman or Positive Akerman steering?

When at full lock, there is an angle between the steering arm on the spindle to the axis of the tie rod on the inside wheel. (Think of a horizontal plane that contains the tie rod axis projection, the outer tie rod ball and the the point on the king pin axis where the plane intersects it.) Fundamentally, they get close to making a straight line when upwards of 90% Akerman. What angle between the tie rod axis and steering arm do you "not exceed" to prevent cam lock or snapover at full lock?

Thanks bro

I absolutely fucking love this video

just thank's you

so.......if i have just an every day street car , with a front mounted rack , and due to the constraints of the dimensions of the front end , the tie rod arms sweep back about 2 inches from the rack body in the straight ahead position , its never going to steer well ? the set up im refering to has opposite ackerman , the outside wheel is turning in more that the inner wheel . it seems like its set up like that more to be able to have rack and pinion steering than any consideration for steering angles ?

Regarding dynamic toe, would moving the rack further away from the ball joint essentially have the same effect (from a geometric standpoint) as using cut knuckles?

So when you moved the rack forward / back, is that without compensating steering arm length or with? I'm trying to get my head around if you kept the rack fixed, increased caster but adjusted steering arms to keep static toe the same (pitman arm still straight on static), would that result in a greater change to your dynamic toe / ackerman as lock increases?

Do the front wheel drive cars get the same effect on ackermann?? If yes, what settings will be better pro or anti ackermann ??

So this may be dumb but having a hard time grasping the pro vs anti.. so the lead wheel is the inner most wheel to the turn? And is pro Ackermen the inner wheel has more degrees of turning vs outer(trail). Or am I way off?….

Man I wish what is best for my drift mx5 nc ... not much info on those ... 😢

I’m surprised that over centering did not come up while discussing toe, tie rods and rack position. Is this something that your setup can show an example of?

Hi. From over the pond here where we turn right on ovals. So oval, tarmac. We would want a pro Ackerman set up?

Commenting as I watch for a second time. SO MUCH information packed into these. Thank you for taking the time to make them! I’m thinking about my own car as I watch. I drift a 2014 S197 mustang with stock angle. I have camber/caster plates, but that’s the only adjustment I have. Apart from poly LCA bushings that help keep the settings I set better than the weak rubber bushings did. I’ve been thinking of picking up some rack spacers from Matt Soppa to boost my angle a bit while I continue increasing driver mod before picking up a full angle kit. I’ve already deleted stock rack limiters. The spacers are 4mm thick and if I’ve got it right they basically increase the range the rack is able to go through. I’m thinking that the dynamic toe will be greatly affected because the added range is at the extremes of rack travel? He says that exaggerates the stock Ackerman because the lead wheel has more angle than the rear stock so it will have even more with the spacers. Also another question, will the spacer work with the kit you have available for my mustang? Or would I want to remove them when I purchase your kit in the future?

Is Pro or Anti better for a street car?

What about transition with anti ackerman, as you wouldn’t have any type of resistence made by the trailing wheel, the car will not self steer that great right?

Wow thanks 🥵🤯

Im confused to how on a rear rack set up how moving the rack forwards will lessen the full lock angle? I thought moving the rack closer would increase angle or require less rack moment before reaching lock to reach more/equal degrees than a rack being moved away?

Does changing the rack location also change the Ackerman of the trailing wheel? (Rear rack)

In F1 they use anti Ackerman to scrub the trailing tire in tight corners to keep the tire temp up.

I noticed that you said that you're gonna explain this in relation to grip driving, but it never happens. How do these things affect grip driving in front rack or rear rack?

Rack height vs. Ride height would be a cool short vid.

I dont understand any of it. . Is that possible to install to any car?

First!

Did you mean that the trail wheel in a drift has no effect in drifting so lifting it off the ground doesn't affect the drifting experience?

5:37 You need to go to the orthopedic surgeon. bones are shattered 🤣🤣🤣

@10:35 nice picture LOL

No music. Urs are perfect

idk if its just me but i felt this was mad confusing lol no hate man just being 100

no offense intended but not sure why you keep bringing most of the concepts explained back to pro level drifting. i feel like most people watching these arent at or near that level, right?

It looks like you are creating neg caster, bad deal !!!

....I KNOW THAT YOU TRIED HARD, TO EXPLAIN THIS COMPLEX GEOMETRY, BUT, I THINK THAT THE "DEMONSTRATION MECHANICAL DEVICES, FAILED TO BECOME "INTUITIVE".... ...SORRY!!!