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11.2 Toe-in/-out
At the front running toe-out is recommended by aproximately 1 degree.
Less toe-out will: make the car more responsive
less stable on acceleration and high speed,
decrease stability at corner exit when accelerating
More toe-out will: make the car just a bit less responsive
significant stabelize at corner exit on acceleration
make the car wan to go straigth forward,
more stable / controleable at high speed.
Toe-out is changed by turning the steering linkage between the front upright and steering plate.
At the rear a fixed toe-in is foreseen and machined in the lower wishbone being 3 degrees.
To change toe-in at the rear there will be available other lower wishbones with more/less toe-in.
More rear toe-in will: increase stability when braking,
increase stability at corner exit when accelerating,
decrease top speed.
Too much toe-in and the car will be twitchy to drive and harder to recover if it loses traction.
Less toe in will: increase the steering and cornering of the car,
increase top speed of the car,
decrease stability at corner exit when accelerating.
11.3 Camber
Camber can be changed on the front and the rear.
On the front it is changed at the upper wishbone at the rod-end with ball-joint. There are located spacers between
the ball-joint and the upper wishbone. Taking out 1 or more spacers will add more negative camber. On the rear
the camber can be changed by turning in/out the upper linkage. We advise to run about 1 degree of negative
camber at the front and 0 degrees at the rear.
• More negative camber (more inclined) at the front adds more steering.
• More negative camber (more inclined) at the rear decreases rear traction entering and in corners.
• Less negative camber (more vertical) at the front results in less steering at the front.
• Less negative camber (more vertical) at the rear increases rear traction entering and in corners till a
certain point. Traction will be lost more abruptly making it harder to gain control ove the the car again.
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