[s-cars] Wandering like a drunken sailor

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The s car alignment spec max is -1.1neg, so you are within specification.  A
couple of things.  First, a new alignment might be in order.  Second, many
times tramlining can be reduced by putting in new inner control arm bushings.
  IME especially with wide tires, these fail more often, and can cause
tramlining.  While you are doing that, replace the swaybar bushings, to get
the rest of the slop out.

IME II lowered S cars run best at .9neg camber, any more, feathering of the
insides of the tire become a problem.  Anything more than 1.1 you just can't
afford.  I used to race A1 scirocco.   Neg 2.5 is full race with all sorts of
on center feel problems, and running anything close to this on an S car, you
will find tire purchases to be a 6 month program.

The other item many figure is a lifetime part (that isn't) is the steering
damper (shock attached to the steering rack - 4A0 425 021).  When this shock
fails, tramlining becomes a more pronounced problem.

HTH

Scott Justusson
QSHIPQ Performance Tuning
In a message dated 10/5/02 8:38:01 AM Central Daylight Time, nbode4 at attbi.com
writes:


Thanks for the info and I forgot to mention, I have the ECS camber plates
and the best I could do for camber was negative one degree. Do I need to
modify these plates to get even less camber? One degree isn't much for
camber. I used to drive my GTI VR6 on the street with 2.5 degrees negative
camber on 205's and had very little tramlining. Do new S6 Avants with stock
255 tires drive OK? I can't believe this is just something I am going to
have to put up with. There must be that one great fix out there.

Nic
A93URS4