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Old 23-11-2006   #29 (Post Link)
Trailbraker
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Re: Q's for the KW Experts

DavidC is defintely right about "toe" by default meaning "toe-in".
You can see this in the explanatory pictures in the photo below - there are little arrows indicating the angle concerned.

Heres a photo of the allignment printout from the Allignment centre for my last settings from Autodelta.
This was with the car at standard ride height, I generally lower it 20mm for track days.

[EDIT: These settings were for a car with poly bushes front and rear. ]


Mid-point between the indicated ranges is optimal, so give that to the guys NOT my actual measured values that are printed in large numbers inside the boxes.

e.g. The allowed range for front toe was [minus 0 deg 7 min] to [minus 0 deg 02 min]
Both of these settings indicating very slight toe-out.

So the mid point would be [minus 0 deg 4.5 minutes]
http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c3...3344_IMG_2.jpg

As you can see from the photo there is a relatively larger positive toe-in setting at the rear.

Interestingly a previous allignment sheet I had for a (relatively) less extreme but still heavily modified version of my car showed that the front toe was set exactly to 0, and the rear toe-in set to 0 deg 14 minutes.
Personally I would recommend the ones that I have in the photo more, and imagine that this was based on some refinement over time by Autodelta.
BTW Straight line stability is just fine with these settings, better than standard.

Hope this is useful

Cheers,
TB

I'm not a doctor - but I really do recommend braking later

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