Question on ride height

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hey car nuts, hoping to get some advice and feed off your knowledge…

I’ve been tuning for awhile now and when making my base tunes I’ve found using the formula mentioned in the 3 minute build works pretty well as a start.

That is:
Divide total weight by 2, multiply that result by your weight distribution and that will give you your front suspension, rear suspension will be the same but multiply it by the rear weight distribution (so if game says you have 44% front then your rear will be 56%)

This makes sense to me as your dividing the weight across the car in an evenly distributed manner, my question is, will having different ride height front and rear affect this?
I usually just keep ride height the same ratio and just bump it down a few clicks the same amount in front and rear but some cars (Honda nsx for example) comes out of the box with a higher back end. I may be wrong but I would assume a higher back end or front end would upset that distribution would it not? Changing the ride height does not change the weight distribution in the upgrades screen so I wonder if that number is given to us in the assumption of a level car? Or would it be on the default ride height? Or does ride height just not affect it at all?

I just wonder if I’m better keeping the same ratio of front and rear ride height as default or to even them out to be the same height

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A spring is a spring and not anti gravity. Think of the setting as replacing one spring with another. Theoretically if you set the springs proportionately to the weight distribution, you could imagine the car like a scale and be even.

Now, if you want the suspension to be Looser, then you need to reduce the settings on the springs. or, if you want the suspension to be stiffer for drifting, you will be increasing the settings. Think of this as replacing the springs with ones that will move up and down more or less with the force of the road. To keep the oscillation of the springs to a minimum you need to set the Rebound and Bump. These settings follow the settings of the springs.

Next you need to see how the car steers through the corners. Most rear drive cars experience Over-steer. This can be corrected to some extent by looser springs in the front and stiffer springs in the back.

When you talked about Ride height, and the front being lower than the back, this has more to do with the dynamics of acceleration. When accelerating the front of the car comes up. lowering the front can help with steering while accelerating.

When you are done finding all of the settings that the car feels right to you, do not be surprised if the sum of the springs is more or less than the weight of the car.