I would do exactly what Rods suggests. Conventional wisdom suggests 2 - 3
deg negative camber for radial tires, 1 - 1.5 deg negative for bias ply
racing tires, as starting points.
Brian
At 10:03 AM 4/12/99 -0400, you wrote:
>In a message dated 99-04-12 00:37:04 EDT, you write:
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> Is anyone out there using negative camber wishbone arms on an MGB?
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>I made my own negative camber lower wishbones. I took stock lower arms and
>welded up the holes and moved them 1/4" out and redrilled. I also beefed up
>the area with 1/8" metal and used 1/4" longer grade 8 bolts on the lower
>trunion. I also drilled and cross drilled the new bolts and inserted zerk
>fittings in the heads to grease the lower trunions.
>
>I just recently checked the camber on a computerized wheel alignment machine.
> The new lower arms I made have 2 degrees negative camber. The factory
>setting is 1 degree positive, for an increase of 3 degrees to the negative.
>
>The car handles well and I am satisified with the results. FYI, I am running
>BFG R1 tires, 185 x 60 x 14 on Minilite wheels with knock offs.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Rod Schweiger
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