Re: aligning a quattro

[Orin Eman <orin@wolfenet.com>]

> service.  I don't think road camber (crown) and the driver's weight
> play a major role - when the car is experiencing a significant sideways
> G, the angle of the road surface will contribute very little.

Road camber is sometimes taken into consideration to make
it drive straight on a typical road... or so they said
when we were trying to stop the departed 95 90Q wandering to the
right.  It would track dead straight if the road was slightly
angled to the left and drift to the right if the road was flat
or angled to the right (prevalent here).  Let go of the steering
and it would drift slowly right then suddenly dive to
the right!  They never did get that straighened out properly.
When it was traded in (under the threat of the lemon law),
even the service manager said it "drove like sh*t".
By this point, they had it _out of spec_ to try to make
it drive straight and it felt numb.

BTW, I span this particular car at Bremerton Raceway into the
inside of a turn... originally, I thought 'too fast'.  Now I'm
not so sure.

Orin.