This may be stupid, but since our maximas have understeer, has anyone tried stickier tires up front and stock tires in the back? just a thought...

 

They are called racing slicks. Quite a few have tried them.

 

Just slicks up front and stockers in the back? Im not talkin about dragging, im talkin about something more like autocrossing..

 

O, that's different.

 

I'm guessing this would make the car more neutral if not make the rear end loosen up..

 

Can't speak from firsthand experience for a Maxima, but generalizing from auto-xers with FWD cars, you can either put stickier tires up front and stocks in the rear, or just manipulate tire pressures to get closer to the handling you want.

Before making the big jump handling-wise to slicks, you may want to just play around with tire pressures and a pyrometer and some white shoe polish to see how handling gets affected. Lot easier on the wallet that way.

If you have adjustable shocks or sway bars, you can also play with those to change the handling of your car. Just remember to keep a log of your changes so you can duplicate the optimum settings when you need to.

Hope this helps,

Quack2x

 

Thanks, but I was just wondering if this helps reduce understeer.

 

i want racing tires.

 

Yes. It'll afect your understeer problem but may not be the best way. Here's a better way:

run a rear sway bar...

disconnect your front bar...or loosen it up (preferably disconnected, would suck to have the loosen nut magically fall off in the middle of a turn).

You'll get the front to loosen up a bit and you can get on the gas a bit sooner.

I do it in my car. Drive it on the street this way too, every so often.

Of, if you have a front strut brace, remove it... it induces understeer...