I have heard, but have no knowledge of two items that have been done to
effect handling. 1) utilizing early alpine upper A arms, I was told they were
shorter and add camber curve? Also, installing lower fulcrums pins reversed
(on purpose) stated to add caster? Anyone have experience with these. I also
have a 1977 shop notes, that indicated a upper A arm lowering, and slight
angle to affect handling and anti dive (rear end lifting under hard breaking)?
I have no experience with these items, but are any bennificial, and worth
pursuing? My car also has the Lou Anderson Ackerman kit, corrects Ackerman,
reduces turn radius, bump steer maybe worse???
Randy B
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From: michael king <michael.s.king@gmail.com>
To: CoolVT@aol.com
Cc: tigers@autox.team.net
Sent: Sat, Aug 28, 2010 6:46 pm
Subject: Re: [Tigers] Tiger Handling
Adding wider tyres will make the car track.tramline in ruts more.. so that
isnt beyond reason. As for the other things.. alignment is likely to be the
issue.. how much castor are you running.. adding more castor will help the
feel.. are you running toe in or toe out?
On 28 August 2010 23:57, <CoolVT@aol.com> wrote:
> I've made some changes over the past few years and haven't been satisfied
> with the handling. The 2 things that seem different are:
> Pretty bad understeer on curves at 40 mph+
> Car's tendency to want to follow ruts in the road.
> It seems that the 2 problems are contradictory.
>
> The things that I've changed from stock are:
> MG Midget steering rack
> Wheels that were high profile 185 x 13 are now 195 x 50 x16 (front) and
> 205 x 50 x16 (rear).
> Thicker sway bar on front (I think it's 7/8's")
> 1/2" thick shims above the front springs (to raise the front a little
> Softened the front shock adjustment because I thought it would be too hard
> with low profile tires.
> Done an allignment and that seems good.
>
> Any suggestions?
> Mark L
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Michael King
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