mikeb
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| posted on 7/9/11 at 01:48 PM |
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Rear Camber and Toe - Racing
What are peoples thoughts and exeriences of racing with rear negative camber on a de dion car (caterham).
It should reduce oversteer a little if present from what I have read. Currently we are set a zero and wondering what to shim the de dion to as a
starter.
Rear toe out is apparantly a big no no but has anyone actually given it a good go on the track, I've read one thread where apparantly a r400
racer won a lot of races with rear toe out.
Any thoughts?
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Strontium Dog
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| posted on 7/9/11 at 02:01 PM |
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I've driven with toe out on the rear. A well scary experience and in anything with any power and RWD you will soon be going backwards through a
hedge IMHO!
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britishtrident
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| posted on 7/9/11 at 02:37 PM |
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I once bought an Imp with evil handling on right hand bends, it turned out the offside rear semi-trailing arm was slightly bent resulting in the
rear toe-in going from a significant toe-in to a slight toe-out.
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nick205
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| posted on 7/9/11 at 03:15 PM |
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All that I've read suggests some toe in on the rear and always a no-no for any rear toe out.
My only experience was shimming the rear of my MK Indy to equalise and slightly increase the rear toe in. This gave a noticeable improvement in
handling, particularly on sudden direction changes - e.g. entry/exit of roundabaouts.
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swalf3
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| posted on 7/9/11 at 05:09 PM |
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Rear camber
Rear toe as others have posted .Rear and front camber dependent on tyres being Radial or Cross-plys. Up to three degrees for
Radials and half a degree for Cross-plys Cheers. Winston
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Ninehigh
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| posted on 10/9/11 at 02:09 AM |
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Cross-ply still exists?
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v8kid
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| posted on 10/9/11 at 07:27 AM |
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Xply is the dogs nutsack for racing. See Avon
As before toe out on rear is nasty, darts all over the place out of controll and then crashes. Avoid like the plague
You'd be surprised how quickly the sales people at B&Q try and assist you after ignoring you for the past 15 minutes when you try and start a
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