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fatal flaw in my car?

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Subject: fatal flaw in my car?
From: "James Creasy" <james@thevenom.net>
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2003 23:52:58 -0800
someone pointed out that my car has a very high Spindle Inclination Angle,
about 15 degrees.  this apparently causes my negative camber to go positive
when i turn the steering wheel (plus it jacks up the front of the car), and
is likely the cause of the huge amount of understeer i get exiting corners
(recently i noticed it entering corners too).  this is really depressing,
since i think my only choice is to remount the upper a-arm lower and make a
new bracket for the spindle to position the ball joint inside the wheel...
which also means i cant use my 15" wheels.

what is an acceptable amount of SIA for an autocross car??  any other ways
to compensate for it??  thanks,

-james

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