[Land-speed] TOE IN

John Burk joyseydevil at comcast.net
Mon Jul 9 22:03:44 MDT 2007


Skip asked

> Now suppose that you run a streamliner with an in-line front end. At
> what point in the turn radius do you line up the wheels/tires? And if
> the answer is "straight" how does one do that? Straightedge along the
> sides of the tires? Which tire is master and which is slave? With any
> real accuracy, I don't know where the toe in is on my car.
> Skip


In Joysey we would put c-clamps on each hub and put enough bungees on the 
clamps to simulate rolling resistance and clamp a bar to the face of the 
front hub . When the bar is parallel to the chassis CL and parallel to the 
face of the rear hub the toe in is good .
John 


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