I generally don’t make this change too often because it can be a pain in the ass vs. Lowering ride height will decrease rear grip, “freeing the kart”.Raising ride height will increase rear grip (side bite).Rear: Predominantly affects rear grip from center off in high speed corners. Thoughts on focusing on it just from a rake perspective?Īlso found it odd that they said they rarely adjust the rear of the kart and mainly do their adjustments with the front only.

So just when I thought I had this height stuff figured out they throw another wrench into the equation.

To further the argument they stated that to add rear grip you’d lower the rear to decrease rake or create negative rake to put more weight over the rear to add traction. He mentioned that the side effect was less stable on the brakes again because of weight movement. One example they stated was if the kart has too much rear grip and doesn’t release off the corner that you’d want to lower the front (effectively raising the rear) to put more weight over the front of the kart. they talk more about rake and moving weight around via chassis rake than the conventional wisdom shared here. Need more rear grip, raise the rear of the kart.īut the 2 most recent videos from Power Republic on ride height seem to indicate differently. Bumping this back up for further discussion.įrom threads like this and from the CRG tuning guide I thought the basic principal was that by raising one end of a kart you’ll add grip to that end of the kart.

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