[Land-speed] TOE IN

[Skip Higginbotham]

Doug,
What I do is use a toe gage (long straight edge) on the left side of 
the front tire and line up the left side of the rear tire to it. The 
problem I have is getting the front tire pointed straight ahead 
(parallel with the chassis).
So basically the same method as you  would use. The car handles fine 
once we got the weight even on the front tires (critical item with 
solid suspension). Gary says he drives it with one hand and uses the 
other for switches, knobs, levers, etc.
Skip




At 06:01 PM 7/9/2007, DougOdom wrote:
>Skip Higginbotham wrote:
>>
>>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
>>
>>
>>Skip, I have never run inline wheels. But if I ever do change the 
>>liner to inline front tires I  think I would make myself a toe 
>>gage. My first idea would be to measure  off the right side of one 
>>of the wheels and the left side of the other.  These lines should 
>>be paralel.  Now if that didn't handle like I wanted I might think 
>>about a little toe in. With the very small tire patch that we have 
>>with the LSR tires I don't think a little toe would hurt anything.
>What have you found works the best for your car?             Doug 
>Odom in big ditch