[Tigers] Tiger Handling

Larry Paulick lpaulick1 at verizon.net
Sat Aug 28 08:14:31 MDT 2010


  What is your alignment specs.  Did you see my article on the Dale A 
change on TU.  My car tracks perfectly, and I did the alignment myself.

Alignment is only as good as the mechanic, not the machine used.

Larry

On 8/28/10 9:57 AM, CoolVT at aol.com wrote:
> I've made some changes over the past few years and  haven't been satisfied
> with the handling.  The 2 things that seem different  are:
> Pretty bad understeer on curves at 40  mph+
> Car's tendency to want to follow ruts in the road.
> It seems that the 2 problems are  contradictory.
>
> The things that I've changed from stock  are:
> MG Midget steering rack
> Wheels that were high profile 185 x 13 are now 195 x  50 x16 (front) and
> 205 x 50 x16 (rear).
> Thicker sway bar on front (I think it's  7/8's")
> 1/2" thick shims above the front springs (to raise the  front a  little
> Softened the front shock adjustment because I thought  it would be too hard
> with low profile tires.
> Done an allignment and that seems  good.
>
> Any suggestions?
> Mark L
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