Smart Struts
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i'm with TT and others. i have the smart struts. i got the whole thing since it was just a few bucks more than the strut rods alone. i run mine all the way up, max camber gain. and i start with about 2* negative in the back.
the problem with the rear suspension in our cars for cornering is not camber gain, we like camber gain. it's radical toe changes. look at the design of the c4 rear suspension. remarkably similar to our design with two very distinct differences, both reduce toe changes through travel.
SS only worth is to drag racing and if that's your concern, put a solid axle in there and be done with it.
the problem with the rear suspension in our cars for cornering is not camber gain, we like camber gain. it's radical toe changes. look at the design of the c4 rear suspension. remarkably similar to our design with two very distinct differences, both reduce toe changes through travel.
SS only worth is to drag racing and if that's your concern, put a solid axle in there and be done with it.
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This is where you and i always disagree. There is not nearly enough camber gain in either the front or rear of the C5 and C6 corvettes much less our cars. The guys who eat drink and sleep road courses dial in a ton of initial camber on their newer vettes. I have spent the last 7 years hangin out around road course junkies. Take a look at the pict i posted below on a banked turn at Lime Rock. I could use a lot lot more initial camber for the wheel to truely be parallel to the track surface.
Tire temps are going to depend on the track. The tire generates very little heat when driving in a straight line. It is possible to have 3 - 4 degrees negative camber and have even temps across the tire. You generate the heat on the outside tires in a turn not on the straights.
P.S. I like the new avatar better than the cartoon thingy.
Tire temps are going to depend on the track. The tire generates very little heat when driving in a straight line. It is possible to have 3 - 4 degrees negative camber and have even temps across the tire. You generate the heat on the outside tires in a turn not on the straights.
P.S. I like the new avatar better than the cartoon thingy.
The only reason why you would want to reduce the initial camber and/or the camber curve is when you have severely reduced body roll by lowering the CG, raising the roll center, using stiffer bars, soprings, shocks and such, but this also means that the weight displacement is not "absorbed" partly by the suspension due to weight movement induced body roll...you'll have to run wider tires to retain the slip angle.
Thanks for the comment on the avatar..I'll change it again shortly.....
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it was a transparent (non animated) gif, when I tried to upload this new one I had to make it a transparent png because uploading it as gif resutled in an error message stating animated avatars are not allowed....well...not every gif is an animated one.
