Hi Theo,
Lowering the upper fulcrum mount was a trick from the 60's.
I was told "we don't do that anymore" back in the 90's..
Do modern tires still like that?
My read on it was that the new thinking was to increase
caster so you get more camber change only on turns, changing
the camber curve caused less tire footprint under braking.
????
Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: Theo Smit
To: Lynn Wall , tigers@autox.team.net
Sent: Mon, 25 May 2009 16:14:06 +0000 (UTC)
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Camber question
If you mean "tire-shredding understeer" when you say "twitchy" then
you're probably right. The steering effort would also be very light,
mostly because there's not nearly enough tire touching the pavement. I'm
going to start with about half a degree negative (205/45-16's on 7" wide
rims) and see where I have to go from there. When I rebuilt the front
crossmember I lowered the attachment point of the upper fulcrum pins,
and that should give me a better camber curve (more negative camber for
a given amount of suspension compression) but we'll see what actually
happens. In the limited amount of driving I did with the car a couple of
weeks ago the steering effort and stability seemed OK at least up to
60-70 MPH.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tigers-bounces@autox.team.net
> [mailto:tigers-bounces@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Lynn Wall
> Sent: May 25, 2009 9:18 AM
> To: tigers@autox.team.net
> Subject: [Tigers] Camber question
>
> Hey all,
>
>
>
> First let me say thanks to all the vets out there. Your
> sacrifice is appreciated.
>
>
>
> Second I am trying to align my tiger and the camber has me
> puzzled. The owners manual says 3 degrees 50 minutes
> positive camber. It describes positive camber as the top
> of the tire moving AWAY from the engine.
>
>
>
> I cant believe that applies to todays tires and wheels. I
> am running 16 Panasports and when I went even slightly
> positive the handling became EXTREMELY twitchy. I looked up
> what my 67 mustang should be and it suggested = to 1 negative
> camber. I tried that an it seems to handle much better.
>
>
>
> Any ideas/suggestions. Im getting pretty good at changing out shims.
>
>
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
>
>
> Lynn
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