New wheel allingment Straight talk suspension

[bigdog]

Feels good! Havent had a real go at corner yet - car full of computers and stuff today Will find out over the weekend.... Good luck at Wakefield, looking forward to the video!

[rodent]

Yeah I finally got my suspension install booked for the Tuesday after next. Can't wait!

Gotta find some nice wheels now...

jonno.

[StanTheMan]

Ok after driving the car for a little while. I've decided it needs improving.

currently the stats are


front
camber 2.25 deg
toe 0
max cast.

rear
camber 2.5 deg
toe -1.5mm


the turn in is very lathargic. needs a fair bit more aggression.
how is toe out going to affect tyre wear?
I also have a NB8A fron sway....not sure what size they are but it give natural understear as the rear is standard NA6

CT sugessted 1-1.5mm out at the front.
any more creative critisim?
should i also then change the toe at the rear?

[Slugoid]

I have similar setting as you stan and I feel the turn in needs to be more aggressive:

Before:

front
camber: -1.1 deg
toe 1.5mm
max cast.

rear
camber: -1.3 deg
toe: 7.7 mm in

After:

front
camber: -1.2 deg
toe: 0
max cast.

rear
camber: -1.2 deg
toe: 1.0mm


More camber is needed, cos car mainly gets dríven on weekeneds and on track. More toe-in in the front because in the past, I felt the car can tuck in really well when I was driving hard, but now it feels a tad sluggish. Maybe it's because I have 16\" on and 0 toe just doesn't suit it, considering I had similar camber before and after.

I reckon I'll follow Charlie Brown's setting (1mm toe front, 3.4mm toe rear) with more camber (-2.0deg all round) next time.

Edit: Any good and realtively cheap place to get car alligned? I paid $77 last time to get it done, front and rear.

[JBT]

Any good and realtively cheap place to get car alligned? I paid $77 last time to get it done, front and rear.

That's about the going rate for a 4 wheel alignment. The main thing is to make sure you take it some place where you are confident that they actually regularly calibrate their equipment as well as accurately set the alignment.

[Charlie Brown]

Slugoid, if you have lost the turn-in response you strive for then you will need to go for a touch front toe out but that together with your proposed 2 degrees negative camber will make the car tramline and darty under brakes.

Unless you run semi track tyres like Stan or have the car lowered, I’d stay away from that much negative camber. If you are running street tyres then your current settings seem fine.

I think previously you had so much rear toe-in that the car was really dragging its arse around and therefore the front felt more responsive.

Cost wise I’m paying $88 at Spinning Wheel. You tell Stu what you want and he dials it in. If you’re not happy with the results he’ll redo them for free until you get what you want (within reason).