Maybe you can help me with my problem Chuck. My rear camber adjustment doesn't seem to work. Can you give me some idea what I should be doing to adjust the rear camber on my rulebook regulated solid axle setup? Anxiously awaiting your response.
Chuck Voboril wrote: > I ran the tall rears in conjunction with 18 fronts for about 5 years. > I found that the 19's were narrower but since they were taller they > had the same grip. Hoosier told me they were designed that way. > However, if I ran them enough, especially on concrete for about 6 > events in really hot weather (112+F), the tall rears stretched and got > wider and taller, especially wider. > > Thru a slalom, the mixed sizes never felt as good, the shorter rears > made the car easier to control and a little faster thru the shortest > spaced nastiest slaloms. A little more overshoot in the back had to be > compensated for with hand input with the tall rears. I never ran the > tall tires on all 4 wheels, but my experience with other cars was that > the overshoot in the front would make the car have a little less net > rear overshoot in turning. The downside is that then the car would be > a litttle squishy and less responsive to steering input overall then. > > I always thought that running a little negative camber in the rear > would have helped the tall tire grip also. > > Other people have also. > > The most recent person to design and build a rear end on a F500 that > could put sizeable amounts of neg camber in with uprights that could > assume an angle to the main axle cut the whole rear off his car and > started over again. (rulebook heartburn). Actually, it was done about > 1990 also and then more recently in about 2004. Neither car continued > production with that "feature", as far as I know. > > > > Chuck > > > > > >> From: Jim Libecco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Reply-To: [email protected] >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [F500] Getting started in club racing >> Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 05:59:36 -0700 (PDT) >> >> Don't count out running both autox and club races!!! >> We have done back to back >> weekends. >> >> National competetive road racing and last years solo champion. >> What changes? >> I used to change from 18 to 19.5 inch tires, but now would just >> change the fronts and leave the tall rears on all of the time to >> simplify. >> Just Short/Wide fronts. (10 min) >> Switch brake pads (five minutes). >> I used to >> switch gears but might just leave them the same. Won and >> invitational autox >> shootout for money with road race gears in. (LOVE CVT's!!!). >> Reset toe and >> camber. >> >> That is it. >> Oh yeah, that extra 40lbs of ballast to be bolted into >> the car due to the 493 penalty in club racing....grrrrr. >> >> >> >> >> -----Original >> Message----- [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type text/x-vcard which had a name of jwhit.vcf] ________________________________ FormulaCar Magazine - A Proud Supporter of Formula 500 The Official Publication of Junior Formula Car Racing Subscribe Today! www.formulacarmag.com or 519-624-2003 _________________________________ _______________________________________________ F500 mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change options please visit: http://f500.org/mailman/listinfo/f500 *** Please, DO NOT send unsubscribe requests to the mailing list! ***
