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Re: Wheeley Serwous Qwestion

To: John Lieberman <johnlee@softdisk.com>
Subject: Re: Wheeley Serwous Qwestion
From: washburn <washburn@dwave.net>
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 21:42:55 -0500
John Lieberman wrote:
> 
> >From a purely mathematical standpoint, Jeff, it would be a little more
> than 2/10ths of an inch...assuming that a 1-degree change in camber
> would not change anything else in your front suspension.
> Unfortunately, that's not always the case.
> 
> The math is really quite easy to figure.  Just assume that your
> 24.4-inch diameter measurement is a vertical line at the inside of
> your tire.  Now rotate that vertical line through a full 360-degree
> circle about its center.  The circumference of that circle would be
> pi-times-diameter (or two-times-pi-times-radius.)  Using a value of
> 3.1415926 for pi, and your 24.4 inch value for diameter, you get a
> circumference of 76.654859 inches.  Divide that by 360 and you get a
> value of .2129301 inches for one degree of circumference.
> 
Or.....just use Autocad.

-- 
Patrick Washburn <washburn@dwave.net>
Wausau, WI     Land of Cheese
95 DS Neon
Moooooooooo.

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