[s-cars] Wandering like a drunken sailor

[Bruce Mendel]

I agree with Scott. Being a track junkie, I drive on the street with all new
bushings up front and -2.5 degrees of camber. I am coming up on three months
of driving this way, and can see wear, so six months seems about right for
new tires.

The car sure does like to turn on the track now, though! Keeping it going
straight on the street is a while 'nother story.

I helped it a bit by toeing in to the maximum.....more inflation in the
front  (4 lbs over normal) seems to help as well.

Bruce

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From: <QSHIPQ at aol.com>
To: <nbode4 at attbi.com>
Cc: <s-car-list at audifans.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2002 9:56 AM
Subject: Re: [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
>
>
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