Jeff,
I have seen good explanations in books and magazine articles, but can't
think of a website.
When you look at your car from the front or rear, and "/" is a tire,
\ / is positve
/ \ is negative
You cannot adjust it on a Spridget. Unless you are Spridget hotrodder,
I wouldn't worry about it. The Spridget was designed with positive camber
supposedly because of the bias ply tires used at the time. Radial tires
like zero or negative camber.
You can get rid of some of the positive camber by using offset upper
trunnion bushings if you want. These are easy to install and have no
disadvantages other than being stiffer than the stock rubber ones.
Zero camber is best for going straight and for tire wear, but once you
round a corner and the car leans, the tire contact patch of the outside
tires lifts off the road (on the inside of the tire). Basically you have
positive camber at that point. You can counteract this by dialing in some
negative static camber and you get more contact patch and thus more grip
at the same speed.
The live rear axle always has zero camber.
Ulix
On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Jeff Boatright wrote:
> With all these posts about camber, is there a website that explains what it
> is, how it affects handling, how to set or check it on a spridget, etc?
>
> TIA,
>
> Jeff
>
> Jeff Boatright __o_\__ '65 Austin-Healey Sprite
> http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~jboatri/sprite/sprite.html
>
>
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