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Re: Do it yourself alignment question (TR3A)

To: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@pop.mail.rcn.net>, <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Do it yourself alignment question (TR3A)
From: "Phil Ethier" <pethier@isd.net>
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 23:24:50 -0500
References: <40B252FB.17329.C86AF58@localhost> <40B3BE50.25908.2E2F5C6@localhost>
> Even so, any asymmetry in the system would mean asymmetric behavior.
> And if one side gets better when it doesn't meet the original specs,
> the other side should get worse.  All this would become worse as you
> cranked in more lock, but fortunately we tend to do our high G's at
> high speed with a large turning radius

Speak for yourself.  You are not speaking for autocross freaks.  :-)

> but then, one
> doesn't usually try to pull high G's around a 24ft skidpad. :-)
> Unless perhaps you own a tire factory.

Or unless your autocross eventmaster is a real sadist.

> Yow, I don't recall ever hearing the term anti-Ackerman.  Would it
> mean that the outer wheel turns in more, that toe-in increases as
> your turn the steering wheel???

Colin Chapman did this on some of his race cars, I think.  It has to do with
that slip-angle thing, but I am not that up on it.

Phil Ethier  West Side  Saint Paul  Minnesota  USA
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