[s-cars] 2Bennett Camber Plate Install - Road Test

[Postupack, Jeff]

Fred:

Thanks for the early field report on the 2Bennett Camber plate install.

One question I have is this: (Forgive me if it was answered I could not
locate the pointer!)

Several of us used your excellent camber plate drawings and modified
them 2 or 3 years ago to add camber adjustment for a lowered car. In my
case I got 'close' to OEM specs, but not precisely on the target.
As a result I have some inner edge tire wear.

Now some of that same group may be members of the 2Bennett GP. I for
one!

Did you revert the OEM plates back to the stock hole location, and THEN
install the 2B plates?

Or is that not necessary? Simply install the 2B plates on top, and leave
the Munro OEM plate mod in place?

Thanks Fred, I am very grateful to you for your attention to detail and
sharing your experience.

Jeff Posto 












Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 21:06:13 -0400
From: "Fred Munro" <munrof at sympatico.ca>
Subject: [s-cars] 2Bennett Camber Plate Install - Road Test
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After a good road test today ( my 150 km daily commute) I can happily
report a major improvement in the feel of the car and the absence of
tramlining. The steering now has a nice weight to it and the car tracks
true over ruts that had it dancing around with even the 215/55-16 winter
tires. I am very pleased with the improvement - the car now drives the
way I always thought it should. The tires howl at certain speeds, mind
you, and it occasionally feels like the tread has changed from "street"
to "ultra grip mudd hogg", but at this point I'm assuming that is from
the weird wear patterns induced by the previous alignment.

Since the caster is still out on the right side, I think the improvement
must be due to getting the camber to the centre of the spec. Moving it
from -1.04 to -0.55 really changed the toe - it put it right off-scale
at over -1.5 on both sides, so it appears that small camber changes
significantly affect the front end geometry.

Maybe those Audi engineers knew something when they set the suspension
specs :o). Now if I can just get right side caster in line....


Fred Munro
'94 S4 (point and shoot - what a difference!)