Hi friends,
how is your suspension setup on the Avon?
Yesterday I had another drive test on the road, and this time I tryed to push on the trottle pedal in the bends, car is very funny and works fine, but now I want to setup perfectly my front and rear suspension. So what kind of setup do you use in front wheel and rear? May you teel me an advice to setup rear dampers? I have mine rear dumper bump on the rubber easy. (hope I will need just to screw spring plates I did it only by hands, I screw front spring with the tool and front works fine.
Thankyou Rudy

So nobody have suspension setup? It should be not difficult to win in your track.

Hi Rudy,

Did you read the book, it gives a set-up.
I've the book not around but guess:

1-1.5 degree camber front
0.5-1.5 degree camber rear

1-2 mm toe in at front
0 mm toe in ar rear

Caster if adjustable 5.5 - 8 degree

Dampers must be around middle position at rest, so not resting on the bump-stop.

Shocks must be installed on car-conditions, so every car is diverent.

Enough?

I think this will be good enough for first (legal) drive




[Edited on 26/6/07 by t.j.]

[Edited on 26/6/07 by t.j.]

Hey TJ,
thankyou, I have the book, but we know the book do not say always the trouth, so the hope were to have some tested setup and do the average, I tryed to shout the pride of ours british friends, but this do not work jet.

Hi rudy, i still have my set up to do but so i could do with the info myself, i was going to go back over all the pages of tiger avon posts i am sure there a some posts about sets ups.

Thats the sort of figures that I used. the backs toed in a touch. These were the most difficult to do as one side was well out after the first fit, even though the rose joints were set the same both sides. Check this carefully as it makes a huge difference to the stability at high speed.

Hi Steve,

Still driving in that "build for You" car?

Come on, build a new one!

Grtz

Must admit I am getting ichy fingers. The mini is finished and am thinking of building a midi along the lines of the Caparo T1

Thankyou, this is what I wanted to hear: a little toe in in the rear.
The book say toe out in the rear ( I can't understand why)

I think the toe out is pretty normal if the wishbones will be pushed in by the force produced by the driveshaft causing zero toe in while driving.

It is normal to have "static" toe out on the driven axle, so no worries there.
I will start around zero and will see what happens.

grtz

[Edited on 30/6/07 by t.j.]