Uh, no, I'm not saying you can get one with the other.
On the radio thread - I have installed gauges in the radio opening of
the scuttle support. I've always figured that I couldn't hear a radio
at speed, since I can't hardly hear myself think. Lately I've been
reconsidering this, and would like to install a radio/CD player in the
trunk, with some sort of control head or remote in the cockpit.
Blaupunkt used to make a radio with a control head, this was back in
the early '80s. Has anybody gone this route?
Rear camber - I used to play around with Corvairs. These cars also had
no real provision for decambering the rear end other than chopping the
rear springs. Decambering was a good thing with these cars as it
improved the handling, but it also tended to lower the back end of the
car. While overall lowering of the car was a good thing, the change in
spring rate was not always what was desired. The trick on these cars
was to cut a coil off of the rears and move them to the front, then
install factory competition springs in the rear. This lowered the car
a couple of inches overall and gave some slight decamber to the rear
wheels. I used another trick to precisely decamber the rear, after
having installed the stiffer springs. I fabricated engine mount
spacers which lowered the transaxle, which decambered the rear end
without lowering the body of the car itself.
On the Spitfire one might be able to tune the rear camber quite
precisely by spacing the axles outward at the U-joints or spacing the
differential downwards. Haven't really thought this one through as I
have no intention of pursuing it, so just food for thought.
The point here is that you may be able to change the geometry of the
car by thinking a little differently about the problem, and that
change will be reversible, simple, and hopefully inexpensive.
Tom
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