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From: Joe Curry <spitlist@gte.net>
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 22:43:23 -0700
Since these are cars with independent rear suspension, the wheels act 
independently of each other.
Therefore, if you dearch one side of the spring
(or it collapses, or breaks) that side would in fact develop both a sag and a 
different degree of
camber than the other.

Joe

Douglas Braun & Nadia Papakonstantinou wrote:
> 
> At 12:57 AM 4/13/01 , you wrote:
> >Doug,
> >You're all wet!
> >
> >If you read Kas Kastner's competition preparation manual, you will find that 
>he recommends dearching the rear spring to both bring down the center of
> >gravity and to induce negative camber so that the rear tires will have a 
>better patch in a turn and won't have such a tendency to tuck under.
> >
> >THink about it this way:
> 
> But you talking about BOTH wheels having some particular camber.
> The situation here is that the rear wheels have DIFFERENT camber.
> 
> Doug

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