Tony...Could you explain your reasoning on how you determined your car
needed 7.70 degrees? Jerry.
Tony Rhodes wrote:
>
> Here is the spread sheet. 3U means three notches up, 3D means 3 notches down.
> This is based on the data presented many months ago by someone on the list.
> I went through his math and tried to make sense of it. I based my numbers
> on his data, but in rationalizing it, I came up with some slightly different
> numbers. These cambers are RELATIVE. He picked one end as ZERO (I
> presume maximum NEGATIVE camber) and worked out from there. This was not
> tested in a car by him, but was based on measurements of the hole locations
> in the brackets and then he applied trigonometery to make the calculations.
> You can use it as a basis of comparison.
>
> For instance, My car has 2U outer and 1U inner and has maybe 3 degrees
> excess negative camber. 2U/1U corresponds to 3.70 degrees, therefore I
> want about the brackets that would give 7.70 in the chart. This would be
> 2U/3D (7.5) or maybe 3U/1U (8.2)(I think this is the bracket arrangement of
>TR6's).
>
> The row/column of "base" is the number of degrees contributed by each
> bracket. Note they are not symmetrical. I expected them to be. I need
> to get the bracket measurements and do the math myself.
>
> INNER 3U 2D 1U 1D 2U 3D
> OUTER base 0.00 0.98 2.20 3.58 4.50 6.00
> 3U 6.00 6.00 6.98 8.20 9.58 10.50 12.00
> 2D 5.02 5.02 6.00 7.22 8.60 9.51 11.02
> 1U 3.80 3.80 4.78 6.00 7.38 8.30 9.80
> 1D 2.42 2.42 3.40 4.62 6.00 6.92 8.42
> 2U 1.50 1.50 2.48 3.70 5.08 6.00 7.50
> 3D -0.00 -0.00 0.98 2.20 3.58 4.49 6.00
>
> -Tony
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