As much as we hate to see it, Sometimes the alingment tech does not shake the
car down and the alignment is off to start with. The machine can be out of
calibration, the tech could forget to loosen the head so that is swings properly
as the alignment is adjusted, the steering wheel was not centered when setting
toe.
We always re-set toe 3 or 4 times for autocrosses before locking everything
down. This is even more important for SP or Prepared cars due to the stiff
chasis.
Rob
"Kelly, Katie" wrote:
> Well, I don't know how interesting this is, really, but I took Lucy down for
> her bi-monthly chiropractic appointment and discovered, much to my dismay,
> that her toe-out moved from 1/8 of an inch out to a full HALF AN INCH! Her
> doctor said, "Oh my God, how did this happen?!" He immediately put her back
> to the way she likes it, but he was mightily confused.
>
> I have three questions regarding this:
>
> 1) How do you think this could have happened? I don't recall driving into or
> over anything too violent. Can daily driving really move things around that
> much?
>
> 2) Do you think that now corrected, Lucy will find those extra seconds, and
> we'll beat George Doganis this weekend?
>
> 3) By how much do you think we'll beat George Doganis?
>
> Katie Kelly
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Benjamin D Thatcher [SMTP:bthatch@juno.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 1999 8:08 PM
> > To: autox@autox.team.net
> > Subject: Subject: Re: Neon ACR and the SCCA (Yawn)
> >
> > Anyone have some more good information on how to drive an autocross
> > course? Or how about some info on how to set up your car for autocross.
> >
> > Ben
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