[Tigers] Tiger Handling

[Smit, Theo]

Toe out avoids, to some extent, the low-speed scrub you will get due to the
non-Ackerman geometry in the Tiger's steering. Additionally it will make your
turn-in more positive. It can make your braking a little bit more darty than
it would be with toe-in, though.

Years ago one of the local racers bought one of the ex-Rocketsports Olds
Cutlass GT-1 cars. He told me that according to the book, the fast setup on
that car had 1/4" toe-out, but apparently that required some substantial lack
of fear on the part of the driver. He ran the car with zero toe.


On the Tiger the factory alignment was intended for skinny bias-ply tires on
narrow wheels. When you put modern radials on, with aspect ratios from 40 to
60 instead of the OEM aspect ratio of 78, you have to be prepared to make some
adjustments and your tire/alignment shop ought to know that too, even if
they're not aware of the factory alignment procedure.

Theo


> -----Original Message-----
> From: tigers-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:tigers-
> bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of CoolVT at aol.com
> Sent: September 1, 2010 11:30 AM
> To: BuckTrippel at Verizon.net; tigers at autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [Tigers] Tiger Handling
>
> Why do some suggest 1/8" toe out and others 1/8" toe  in?
> Mark L
>
>


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