[s-cars] 2B Camber Plates

[Bruce Mendel]

I am living that. I'm driving with -2.5 camber on the street, and man is the
car darty and eager to go off a straight line.

On the bright side, it does keep you awake. :)

Bruce
93 S4, thinking about going back to normal alignment until next track event


----- Original Message -----
From: <CLAG500 at aol.com>
To: <t44tq at mindspring.com>; <bob.rossato at att.net>
Cc: <s-car-list at audifans.com>
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 10:26 PM
Subject: Re: [s-cars] 2B Camber Plates


> Taka,
>
>   The way the toe changes with the camber has to do with the basic design
of
> the suspension. The steering arms are very high on the struts. When you
add
> negative camber the distance between the tops of the struts is reduced but
> the length of the tie rod remains constant and causes the wheels to toe
out.
> I had thought about marking the camber and then adding negative for
auto-X.
> The toe change is pretty drastic though mainly because of how close the
> steering arms are to the tops of the struts. Adjusting the toe with the
tie
> rod ends is tedious and I don't think wouldn't want to mess with it at the
> track.
>
> Chad Tobin
>
>  In a message dated 12/13/02 9:00:15 PM Central Standard Time,
> t44tq at mindspring.com writes:
>
> << Bob-
>  Is this more a function of the 2Bennett design rather than
>  the suspension configuration?
>
>  I've seen plenty of cars w/ camber plates that allow you to
>  go from street to track and back w/ ease. Maybe these Audis
>  don't allow you to do that.
>
>  Taka >>
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