Rear wheel steering thoughts???

[hquackenboss]

I think it is important to understand that the manufacturers that have developed active rear steering fully optimized their cars before adding rear steer, and therefore had a solid baseline to compare the active steering improvements (if any). I would suggest that whether or not you have an engineering background, unless you have the math skills and the attention span to digest three books on suspension, including Herb Adams Chassis Engineering, Carroll Smith's Tune to Win, and Bill/Doug Milliken's Race Car Vehicle Dynamics and the companion Problems, Answers and Experiments workbook, you are unlikely to be happy with the result, because you won't have either the baseline vehicle performance measurements (and driver feel), nor the engineering basis to be able to analyze what is going on and how to make it better.

You didn't say which Corvette chassis you wanted to slide under your Camaro (unless you plan to use a C5, C6, or C7, I wouldn't do that), but if you build a car as you describe, with careful workmanship, and spend time tuning it, including getting the front/rear handling balance correct, optimizing alignment, particularly the front and rear camber and toe settings, you should be able to achieve handling as good as a C6 or C7 Z06, that is easy to drive fast. Once you have done that, you should be the envy of everybody who sees your car run, let alone drives it. And then, if you want to add active rear steer, you will have a baseline to compare. Then, experiment with various rear toe settings from toe in to toe out, and recognize the different feel, and measure its performance through a slalom, and how quickly you can get back to the throttle coming our of a corner. Once you do all that you will have a rational basis for deciding if you want active rear steer, and if so, what parameters. And then, retrofitting active steering to the Corvette will involve some ingenuity in picking what components to use, but you shouldn't have to redesign the whole rear suspension.