ok now that you guys have my soft AA/BGCC record I need to steel your
suspension to try for the record, what is string the car? something to do
with the front end alignment? tow in tow out , camber caster?
dale
have to work harder on car now, might cost money
----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 5:10 PM
Subject: Re: [Land-speed] suspension
> I've had an air ride system for many years on the Camaro... there are
> advantages and disadvantages...
>
> My original reason was to aid me in putting it on the trailer...also to
> help
> put a jack under the car, a hidden upside was that I could measure bag
> pressure to roughly determine downforce on the front and rear of the
> car....but it also has a couple of down sides... The deal is if you
> loose
> air pressure it can cause a sudden decrease in ride height.
>
> When designing one of these systems you need to determine how stiff you
> want
> the car to be... in our case the bags come in the form of "Shockwaves"
> from
> Air Ride technology's which have the shock and air bag combined in a
> single
> unit.... and thier length is set from the factory.... position in the car
> determines the amount of pressure in the bag at the correct ride
> height....
> I've found that stiffer suspensions in my cars has worked fairly well and
> to
> do that with an air ride system we've been keeping the pressure around
> 80-100 psi. that doesn't leave a lot of room to actually raise the car
> from
> a lowered or race position...
>
> Real world travel is around 4" at the maximum psi of around 150psi....
>
> Shock valve settings are also relatively stiff in these units... so they
> dampen fairly well...
>
> The last thing to remember is that toe, and camber settings change on an A
> frame front end based on right height at the time.... so we always string
> the car prior to racing after extended trailering.
>
> Keith
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