Is this alignment spec suitable for street driving

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Is this alignment spec suitable for street driving

Postby Mr Starlet » Sun Jan 07, 2007 11:37 am

Hi everyone

Just had the car back from the alignment shop (Fulcrum @ Marooka) and these are the final specs they derived at...

Rear
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Camber -2.35 L -2.10 R
Toe +1mm L +0.9mm R

Front
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Castor +4.22 L +3.98 R
Camber -1.95 L -1.76 R
Toe +1.1mmL +1.1mmR


Are there specs too agreesive for everyday driving with the odd occasional run up the hills? I've just spent a good amount on tyres (Toyo T1R) so ideally I'll be after a setting with best tyre wear and a safe alignment specs for when I head for the hills.

What does everyone recon?

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Minh

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Postby zoomzoom » Sun Jan 07, 2007 12:26 pm

In my opinion it has far too much rear and not enough front camber. Also the front should really be running more castor. More rear camber than front is really a setup for front wheel drives.

Check out this thread where we went through it. I ended up going -1.5 all round and it felt great. I certainly wouldnt go much more just for road driving. I did take it to the track with these specs and it felt great but could probably go with about -2.0 on the front and leave the rear at -1.5.

My Specs(and I know they were within 0.01 because I did it myself)
Front
camber -1.5* left and right
castor +4.5* left +4.0* right
toe 1mm in each side(2.0mm total)

rear
-1.5* left and right
toe 0.5mm in each side(1.0mm total)

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Postby Mr Starlet » Sun Jan 07, 2007 1:24 pm

so for best wear out of tyres, would -1.0 all the way around be too subtle?

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Postby zoomzoom » Sun Jan 07, 2007 4:07 pm

my tyres seem to be wearing quite well, but I do tend to throw the car through corners a bit. I guess it depends what type of driver you are as to how aggressive you set the car up.


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