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toe question...Matt, Brian?

Old Mar 15, 2006 | 08:05 PM
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toe question...Matt, Brian?

I have some stillen camber plates on the way, so here's my question:

1. For regular driving, I will have them set up to factory specs.

2. At autocross events, would it be more advantageous to:

a. adjust camber to -1/1.5 and have the associated toe-in that would be caused by this...

or

b. adjust camber to -1/1.5 and give the tie rods a couple turns to increase toe-out near factory specs (this shouldn't be that hard) and change it back after the event (same number of twists reverse on the tie rods)
Old Mar 17, 2006 | 02:43 PM
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I just wish ground control or another company would make the camber plates that include the ability to control caster...those are cool...like the ones progress made for an old se-r I believe...don't remember what article I read that in though...but in either case, I say definitely put some toe out in...but that's me...and as far as camber goes, with our really front end heavy cars, 1.5 deg neg should be the minimum to run at autoX...
Old Mar 24, 2006 | 08:20 PM
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You need toe out for stability (even in autox, stability is a good thing)
Old Mar 24, 2006 | 08:39 PM
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dont mess with tie rods jsut adj. the camber on the plates and leave it for events
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