good alignment specs for a street/strip car
09-26-2011, 09:07 AM
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good alignment specs for a street/strip car I need to get my car aligned and would like to get a more performance oriented alignment than the stock specs. I also drag race the car on skinnies, so i don't want anything that will jeopardize stability on the drag strip. I also don't want to wear tires out every week. Anybody got suggestions for alignment specs that will work good for that? Thanks
Ryan
Ryan
09-26-2011, 02:43 PM
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There are differant throughs on this
GM engineers devoted years of research into designing the F-BODY and
I as well as most if not all the ppl on this forman think they did a great job, I do not remenber the exact specs but I think OE specs are close to :
Front
camber + 0,50 with +/- .50
caster + 4.00 with +/- .50
toe + 1/6 in with +/- 1/16 in
Rear
camber 0.00 ???
toe + 1/16 in ???
thrust 0.00 +/- 0.13 ( I like + 0.03)
now as to car at OE heigth or lowered I think setting should be close to OE specs as possible for DD as tires are going to contact the road the same if car is 3" lowered OR 3" higher ( the SAI would change as the angle of the upper and lower control arms will change if lowered/ rased
now to add to this IF running AUTO-X or raceing a winding road, a little - camber and little - toe MAY help the handling of car
just my $ 0.02, I am not "A-SPERT" just because I am 3 times the age of the advage ppl on this board, but have aligned app 78,000 autos/ and still learning WHEN I stopped
Johnny
PS : as stated above I am not an expert just because I an 3 x the age ....it just means I have been around quite a time. PERIOD
GM engineers devoted years of research into designing the F-BODY and
I as well as most if not all the ppl on this forman think they did a great job, I do not remenber the exact specs but I think OE specs are close to :
Front
camber + 0,50 with +/- .50
caster + 4.00 with +/- .50
toe + 1/6 in with +/- 1/16 in
Rear
camber 0.00 ???
toe + 1/16 in ???
thrust 0.00 +/- 0.13 ( I like + 0.03)
now as to car at OE heigth or lowered I think setting should be close to OE specs as possible for DD as tires are going to contact the road the same if car is 3" lowered OR 3" higher ( the SAI would change as the angle of the upper and lower control arms will change if lowered/ rased
now to add to this IF running AUTO-X or raceing a winding road, a little - camber and little - toe MAY help the handling of car
just my $ 0.02, I am not "A-SPERT" just because I am 3 times the age of the advage ppl on this board, but have aligned app 78,000 autos/ and still learning WHEN I stopped
Johnny
PS : as stated above I am not an expert just because I an 3 x the age ....it just means I have been around quite a time. PERIOD
Last edited by SS SLP2; 09-26-2011 at 04:40 PM.
09-26-2011, 07:48 PM
#4
Thanks for the replies.
I think after reading a few posts from strano and madman, I believe I am going to shoot for this:
Camber 0 to -.50
Caster as much as possible with .5 degrees less on driver side
Toe in 1/16" each side
I think GM did a great job designing these cars as well. However, I think they made compromises everywhere in order to please the masses. Which doesn't work well for all racing applications. So hopefully this will improve on the oem settings a little. Thanks
Ryan
I think after reading a few posts from strano and madman, I believe I am going to shoot for this:
Camber 0 to -.50
Caster as much as possible with .5 degrees less on driver side
Toe in 1/16" each side
I think GM did a great job designing these cars as well. However, I think they made compromises everywhere in order to please the masses. Which doesn't work well for all racing applications. So hopefully this will improve on the oem settings a little. Thanks
Ryan
