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Originally Posted by MR2TRD1
I love the 91/92 suspension. Since I've swapped over to coilovers its extremely predictable. There is a 180 degree exit ramp where I work and sometimes in the rain the back will kick out, but its extremely smooth and controllable (if you can drive). Sometimes I just give it power and hold the angle. Before this setup I had KYB's and Suspension Technique springs. It was very twitchy and it wasn't easy to regain control once it slid out.
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Yeah I feel as though, that back when Toyota did the revisions to the suspension I think that instead of changing the rear toe end linkage, and such, I think if they simply increased the size of the tire width, (14in rims for any car especially a sports like the MR2 was a down right insult never mind a joke) as well as increased the stiffness of the shock, (the black bilsteins that came with the G-Limited later on would have done just fine) put a slightly more aggressive tire on the car, and maybe lower it like they did then they wouldn't have had to go back and make the car ultimately handle worse than it originally was designed to do.
Originally Toyota set out to build a production car which would have the handling characteristics of the supercars of the day. And they did it with the first gen MK2. One of the problems was the daily/average driver wasn't prepared for the car, the other problem was that Toyota got the car to react amazingly well; too well even, and they forgot to increase the lateral grip of the car, if they did that the car wouldn't have been nearly as hard for the average driver to control.
Take the Noble M12 and M400 basically it was the same idea, minimal understeer ("point and shoot" type of steering reaction) with plenty of lateral grip and that chassis is extremely well behaved while still providing the best handling money can buy at almost any price. Noble M12GTO3/M400 Average=1.165 lateral G.