Lateral effects

[Norm Peterson]

It will cause the rear to dominate the distribution of lateral load transfer, and to limit roll itself - possibly to the point where you can't develop enough of that for the front suspension's greater roll stiffness to shift the overall vehicle balance back over to mild understeer. Closely related is that it makes the vehicle much less responsive to efforts aimed at shifting the handling balance.



You can sort of "get away with" a PHB in this general location in a car with large x huge x soft rear tires and little skinnies up front due to the big difference in grip, or on a dirt track where a massive oversteering cornering attitude (and wild amounts of opposite-lock steering) is normal. Perhaps too, on a solid front axle car with its front roll center somewhere up around axle height.


Norm