Re: Camber / castor plates.. anyone used 'em

[Gary Huff <scirocco86@home.com>]

I'm curious if anyone has done this too, as my 75 is going to have problems going straight and hooking up with the torque and amount of negative camber I want to run. Peace,
	-Gary Huff

On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 09:47:46PM -0700, RoccotMan .aka Jason Adams wrote:
> I was reading in Per Scheroder's book about camber/castor
> plates that replace stock strut mounts.  He mentions that
> you can run less static camber if you rotate the camber
> plates 90 degrees and use them to increase the castor.  so
> when the wheel turns you generate more camber when turning
> and you have less camber when running straight, this he
> claims increases straight line stability at speed.  makes
> sence to me...  However I also read that when you increase
> castor the steering effort goes up (apparently this is why
> race cars have power steering).  So my question is... Has
> anyone done this if so was it worth it.  
> 
> ps. this setup wouldn't be going on my daily driver...
> 
> thanks..
> 
> 
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