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tomcat
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how much is good?

Mine is currently at 3.1deg passenger side and 3.7deg driver side.
Its pulling to the left a bit.

I am getting my tie rods machined this week so should be able to adjust them even now which should hopefully improve things :wink:

I was thinking of setting both to 4.0deg -does this sound about right?

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My 200s set to 6.2.

More caster, more straight line stability and a higher increase in negative camber on the outside wheel under cornering.

Id have thought youd want a bit more than that but it depends on how much camber youre already running.
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-3degrees at front
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Thats my road setup, but being RWD its not worrying the inside front under accelration out of the corners.

With that much negative camber already 4 seems reasonable. Ive not really played with fwds much.

Suck it and see i guess, if after that the steerings too heavy wind it off, if its light and floaty wind it on.
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I always ran as little caster as possible...
was also advised by a racing guru that caster was bad and made the feel of cornering better, but rarely gave any improvement...
Take regular exercise, walk to you car!
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mike-payne wrote:I always ran as little caster as possible...
was also advised by a racing guru that caster was bad and made the feel of cornering better, but rarely gave any improvement...
That's interesting. There seems to be two schools of thought with castor, like Marmite :)
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Gerry H wrote:
mike-payne wrote:I always ran as little caster as possible...
was also advised by a racing guru that caster was bad and made the feel of cornering better, but rarely gave any improvement...
That's interesting. There seems to be two schools of thought with castor, like Marmite :)
Hmmm..... Marmite! :wink:
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Yuck! Marmite! :o

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mmm marmite :roll:

I'll try 4 see how it feels lol
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Post by tomcat »

tried it at 4 and it wasn't good and I had bad chatter :(

I have modified the std arms today and now and gone back to roughly 3.5 and it seems ok :)

I've just got to sort my tracking out now before tuesday.. nothing like being prepared!!
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