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Old 07-20-2004, 03:17 PM
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The toe is slightly too toed in, the camber is mildly too negative. And the caster is set to oppose a right hand drift. Without seeing the camber cam orientation I can't say whether a prefered position could be had.

Those numbers will probaly do just fine, but what matters is whether they work. If I had just driven the car I would have a specific answer what to do with the numbers. What is most important about the numbers is that they WORK.

There are many considerations for the best alignment. The specs have tolerances and within the toleances are the makings of real quality alignments.

For example the left camber is more negative than the right by a smidge. That is not the convention. Convention says that one should make the left side slightly more positive than the right due to the general crown of most roads. If in your case the left side is as positive as it will go which is a real common occurance as the springs and bushings sag that way, then one would not want to place the right side much more positive even if it can. If I had my preference I would place 10-20 minutes more camber on the left side and totally dependant on the prior test drive I would use up to .75 deg to trim the state of drift to the right. That is beyond the cross caster spec but one must do what one must do to make it handle. Cross caster is not going to wear tires. in large amounts it can change the driveability during braking but that won't be the case here or even up to .75 deg. or so.
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