Chassis flex will and does automatically increase camber as RF load increases. Increasing stagger by putting on a smaller LF tire will decrease the amount of change because of increased load on the RF.
It's really like anything else. It's hey your pushing or your something else. First you have to know what it is your doing out there that's a problem. If your pushing yada yada yada ... you either have to make it grip more up front, get more turn out of the back or at least reduce in the back what ever it is that's fighting with the fronts, trying to go straight when you want to turn. Changing how the RF is presented to the track by any means, will effect how the back end does what it does.
Let's say your pushing, how do you know if your push is a RF tire presentation problem? Your going to feel the RF or take temp readings. If the whole tire feels the same across it, then sure maybe throw some front stagger at it by putting a smaller LF on. But then sure your going to put some angle to the RF, but at the same time your also going to reduce some of the effort going to the RF to make it work. Was your problem the RF wasn't working to begin with lack of effort to it and zip for chassis flex, then you stagger increase just put you farther out to lunch. But even that's iffy because ... Stuff is complicated and some how some way you have to develop a picture of the whole kart in 3d in your head or gain a feel if you like for the whole thing. Until stuff just all blends together to form your own personal understanding, your throwing junk to the wind trying to know what putting more stagger on up front fixes. It may fix what you want it to fix today, but tomorrow it might not. It's the whole picture that matters. I'm thinking about and looking at my picture while writing this. That's all I can do because all I have to look at is my picture. The best I can do and anyone else can do is to guess about your picture. Mike, Todd, JWD and some others on here have a pretty darn clear picture. All the rest of us can do is to hope someday our picture will be just as clear.
shakenbake5, Your origional question asked about how changing stagger might effect transfer speed and you said you heard about more slowing transfer. Well if you just think about the smaller tire lowering down the left front corner by making the LF spindle drop down, then just alter your picture in you head. When you ask that I actually see a kart and I see the LF corner drop down. To figure out what might or will happen I actually can make the picture drop down a whole lot to exaggerate stuff. I see this imaginary weight or blob at the LF wanting to go more straight out then it did before the change. I then think about how it use to sort of push down on the RF corner of the chassis and flex it a little... and how now since the change it can't do that as much. Then I start seeing how it changed camber from what it use to be because the LF dropped down. If you drop down the left side it will angle up the outside of the RF tire a little. If it was pretty even heated across it, then maybe it will work a little more to the inside. But then again since that Blob of weight can't flex the chassis as much then maybe when out on the track it really didn't make much change at all. That's where Mikes coming from when he starts about a flexible chassis soaking up adjustment and needing less stagger.
Back to the fast or slow acting thing or thought. I guess I not only see a picture in my mind of the chassis working, I also see forces acting on it. The forces I see in my mind acting on the chassis are a sort of visible wind I can actually see put effort to the chassis. You say more stagger by putting on a smaller LF and I see a visible sort of wing blowing from left to right across the front slightly change direction, from sort of downward to more outward. My mind knows that if it's blowing more outward then there's not as much effort as there was pushing the tire into the track, >through the physical chassis. So there's less flex and maybe more angle of the tire to the track. ya know, while writing that I realized I also see the track and I automatically put a banking the tire is being applied to. ... are you starting to see it a little ? Actually I'm not afraid to try to explain my picture of it on here. ya know why? I'm positive others have the same or similar picture there looking at. The problem is its very tough to describe a picture. ...
are you startng to see it a little ? I hope this helps you to see how and why questions are answered on here by, it all depends... answers like ... sometimes front stagger or cross will free it up a little and other times it will tighten it up a little, it all just depends.
or maybe because this is all IMHO and ain't necessarily right anyway. ...
and again... everything is black and white, cut and dry, depending on different stuff
