What alignment settings do you run?
11 April 2011, 07:18 PM
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What alignment settings do you run?
What alignment settings do you run?
I had my alignment done today and asked for a fast road setup:
Front Camber: About 0.30
Caster: around About 3.00
Front Toe: About 0
Rear Camber: About 1.30
Rear Toe: About 0
Thanks
I had my alignment done today and asked for a fast road setup:
Front Camber: About 0.30
Caster: around About 3.00
Front Toe: About 0
Rear Camber: About 1.30
Rear Toe: About 0
Thanks
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14 April 2011, 03:08 PM
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Who did you ask ? Fast road can't be that relaxed... most are closer to the settings I have listed.
No camber up front and loads at the rear ?
dunx
No camber up front and loads at the rear ?
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14 April 2011, 06:47 PM
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Guess they had no idea what they were doing then lol.
So more camber at the front than rear would most likely give you more oversteer and more camber at the rear and less at the front would more likely give you understeer?
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So more camber at the front than rear would most likely give you more oversteer and more camber at the rear and less at the front would more likely give you understeer?
Thanks
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14 April 2011, 07:00 PM
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Not as simple as that, more camber at the rear allows you to "chuck it" at a corner lift-off and round she goes... 
Adding more camber at the front tends to help reduce understeer, eventually too much at either end wears your tyres prematurely.
IMHO.
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P.S. If you swapped your F to R "settings" it may be more beliveable...
Adding more camber at the front tends to help reduce understeer, eventually too much at either end wears your tyres prematurely.
IMHO.
dunx
P.S. If you swapped your F to R "settings" it may be more beliveable...
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17 April 2011, 07:38 AM
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Front Camber - 1 deg
Front Toe - 0
Front Castor - Slightly over 6 deg (Standard on STI hatch)
Rear Camber - 1.75 deg
Rear Toe - 0
Car is totally standard with the factory camber bolts. I would like more front camber but that means aftermarket bolts.
Sam, yours look like the factory alignment specs. He probably didn't quite understand the term "fast road" setup. I'm quite sure your front camber bolts allow you to go a little more negative.
Front Toe - 0
Front Castor - Slightly over 6 deg (Standard on STI hatch)
Rear Camber - 1.75 deg
Rear Toe - 0
Car is totally standard with the factory camber bolts. I would like more front camber but that means aftermarket bolts.
Sam, yours look like the factory alignment specs. He probably didn't quite understand the term "fast road" setup. I'm quite sure your front camber bolts allow you to go a little more negative.
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Front Camber - 1 deg
Front Toe - 0
Front Castor - Slightly over 6 deg (Standard on STI hatch)
Rear Camber - 1.75 deg
Rear Toe - 0
Car is totally standard with the factory camber bolts. I would like more front camber but that means aftermarket bolts.
Sam, yours look like the factory alignment specs. He probably didn't quite understand the term "fast road" setup. I'm quite sure your front camber bolts allow you to go a little more negative.
Front Toe - 0
Front Castor - Slightly over 6 deg (Standard on STI hatch)
Rear Camber - 1.75 deg
Rear Toe - 0
Car is totally standard with the factory camber bolts. I would like more front camber but that means aftermarket bolts.
Sam, yours look like the factory alignment specs. He probably didn't quite understand the term "fast road" setup. I'm quite sure your front camber bolts allow you to go a little more negative.
How is the caster adjusted?
Thanks
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17 April 2011, 09:16 PM
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If you swap the left & right top adjustable mounts over they rotate 120 degrees thus you can add loads of caster, and if needed use camber bolts for camber. The benefit is that you gain dynamic camber as the steering wheel is turned, because you've "tipped back" the axis of the strut.
IMHO.
dunx
P.S. I was once advised to aim for -2.5 degrees of camber all round with maximum caster for a good road set-up ! ! !
IMHO.
dunx
P.S. I was once advised to aim for -2.5 degrees of camber all round with maximum caster for a good road set-up ! ! !
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