Alignment specs

[Phil and Judy Rose]

At 8:37 AM -0700 5/22/07, Bernie Benz wrote:
>Ingo, Mike,
>
>My spec, (zero camber,  zero toe) is designed for max tire life under 
>hiway cruising and around town conditions, and is probably not the 
>best for the track where one may be willing to sacrifice tire life
>for cornering performance at the extreme.
>
>
>Even with my strut brace I can not get camber more positive than 
>about 0.5deg. negative. So my next step is to see how much I can move 
>the lower control arm inward by slotting the mounting bolt holes in 
>the subframe. Should be able to pick up another 0.5deg. positive by
>doing this.

Bernie,
Your comments remind me about my alignment results last summer (first 
one done since I've owned the car). The tech found he could get no 
better than about 0/-0.8 deg. camber (I don't recall if that was R/L 
or L/R) and he asked me: "Has this car been lowered?" It had not 
been--all stock suspension. Anyway, he managed to loosen the subframe 
and "persuade" it to move so as to equalize the negative camber error 
( now about -0.4 deg. on each side).  He said that would be OK for 
track use, and in fact that was OK with me. Inasmuch as I do not 
drive this car many miles per yr and tear the tires up on the track 
anyway, that camber situation is a "sleeping dog" I'm gonna let lie 
for a while longer. ;-)

Phil
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