Mazda Global MX-5 Cup - 14.0 Front Sway Bar Settings; 15.0 Basic Handling Guide

Long Road Racing, Global MX-5 Cup User Guide, Version 1.3
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14.0 Front Sway Bar Settings
• The Front Sway Bar has three available stiffness settings: Stiff, Medium and Soft. The vehicle is delivered with the
bar set at the recommended Medium setting.
• To soften the sway bar, disconnect the end links, adjust the lengths and spacer configurations as needed to
reconnect the link to the outermost hole on the sway bar arm.
• To stiffen, disconnect the end links, adjust the length and spacer configuration as needed to reconnect the link to
the inner-most hole on the sway bar arm.
• Changes must be made to both the left and right connections to achieve the stiffening or softening affect. See
figure 13.
Figure 13: Sway Bar End Link Settings
15.0 Basic Handling Guide:
Front Rear
Comp /
Bump
Rebound
Comp /
Bump
Rebound
Straight line braking - front lockup
-
Straight line braking - rear lockup
+ -
Trail braking - Slow turn-in response
+ +
Trail braking - Understeer
- +
Trail braking - Oversteer
+ -
Turn in (no braking) - Understeer
- +
Turn in (no braking) - Oversteer
+ -
Steady State Turning - Understeer*
- - + +
Steady State Turning - Oversteer*
+ + - -
Corner exit - Understeer
- +
Corner exit - Oversteer
+ -
Straight line accel - lack of traction
- -
* Steady state = no damper influence