i thought lethening the bottom arms too much
would put more stress on the top bearing
Brad
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From: "Errol Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 10:36 PM
Subject: Re: camber
> Nick,
> Well put
> White man speakum truth. Lower arms for major adjustment and upper mounts
> for fine tuning.
> Cheers,
> Feral Errol
>
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> From: abrahamk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: camber
> Date: Friday, October 06, 2000 9:06
>
> Pete,
> The angle that the wheel makes with the road when you look from in front
or
> behind the car is called "the CAMBER angle"
> If you want a car to have good cornering power, it is clear that you have
> to
> have the most amount of rubber on the road that you can.
> This is best achieved when the wheel is upright, i.e at 90 degrees to the
> road - a zero camber angle.
> The key here is when do you want the wheel to be upright?
> Because the Datto has MacPhearson Strut suspension the camber angle
changes
> when the car pitches and rolls.
> The idea is that you give the car static negative camber (tops of wheels
> closer to centreline of car than bottoms) so that when the car starts to
> roll in a turn the outside wheel camber angle goes back to approximately
> zero.
> So, when you need it most (middle of a corner) you have the front outside
> wheel at 90 degrees to the road, maximum grip - yeehah!
> There is one more subtlety, if you roll a cylinder it rolls in a straight
> line. If you roll a cone shape it rolls in a circle.
> If you increase the negative camber angle even more than what it takes to
> get the front outside wheel upright in a turn you find that you get even
> better cornering!
> This is because the front outside tyre squashes into a cone shape. F1 cars
> don't have any suspension movement but still run 3 degrees camber for this
> reason.
> The only disadvantage of too much neg. is increased tyre wear on the inner
> half of the tyre, and slightly decreased braking ability - and
acceleration
> on FWD cars.
> My old Alfasud had 3 degrees neg camber and used to get wheelspin going up
> hills!
> But going down hills and on flat smooth roads the cornering limit was
> determined by the rears, the front wheels had that much grip...mmm.
> I recommend changing transverse arms to get more neg. camber rather than
> buying adjustable strut tops or slotting the holes.
> Regards,
> Nick
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Lars Belarken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2000 3:22 AM
> Subject: camber
>
>
> > Is adding negative camber a good idea? how is it done and is it
> expensive??
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Pete Kitchen.
> >
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