Can someone give me some figures for front wheel geometry settings
Im after a safe starting point for tracking and camber.
Car is a Ginetta G27, Zetec lump, live rear, no ARB up front, LSD.
Im setting the camber myself, but going to attempt to let a local garage do the alignment.
I would look at 2 degrees neg camber, and wheels parallel.
Easy to set the front wheels with 2 bricks, 2 straight edges and a tape measure.
Not sure if you can set caster angles, they are often forgotten about but can make a massive difference to the way a can drives.
Thanks!
I shall have a go tomorrow and use the garage as a last resort.
The car doesn't allow for camber changes without changing some spacers, so have left at factory settings.
I run the front of my G20 at 2 deg negative camber and parallel toe too so yeah that's a pretty good place to start.
Caster is fixed and measured at 1 deg one side and 2 the other - the car has virtually no self-centering effect whatsoever and needs steering out of
corners, if I ever get round to doing something about it I'd aim for 5 or 6 degrees.
ETA - after setting it up on a 4 wheel alignment rig I then checked the camber with a good quality calibrated digital inclinometer across the hub and
got measurements within a tenth of a degree, so that's a pretty good way to get it well set up too.
[Edited on 8/4/16 by colin99999]
To camber and castor I made one of these:
https://www.merlinmotorsport.co.uk/p/ada-castor-camber-gauge-adaccg
Printed the picture as large as I could, glued it to a board, drilled a hole for the plumb line, job done. The instructions are online for castor,
very simple.
5-6 degrees castor is a lot. 3 1/2 -4 is pretty good. That is that I use on my Spitfire. (and the above settings, they are probably good for most RWD
cars)
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Originally posted by cliftyhanger
To camber and castor I made one of these:
https://www.merlinmotorsport.co.uk/p/ada-castor-camber-gauge-adaccg
Printed the picture as large as I could, glued it to a board, drilled a hole for the plumb line, job done. The instructions are online for castor, very simple.
5-6 degrees castor is a lot. 3 1/2 -4 is pretty good. That is that I use on my Spitfire. (and the above settings, they are probably good for most RWD cars)