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Alignment Clinic; Saturday, September 27, 2003
Article/Review
By: Patrick Weaver
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Photos and Slight Edit By: David
Hess
Members in attendance, myself, Rob, Tony,
Mick, Wild Bill, Dave and Gayle, Jon and Justin with visits from my
mother and my father. (By the way this was the first time I have ever
met my father. It went very well.)
 Rob
was early and I wanted to get started so the MR2 hit the rack first.
Rear camber seemed to be negative enough for Rob's liking so we let it
be. Rob told me to set the rear toe at pos.80 so with a little
explanation of what we were doing. How we were going to do it and
why we set the toe and moved on to the front. We did not have the
negative 2.0 that we wanted and there was no adjustment available to us
so we installed a crash bolt in the top hole of the right front strut
and got all that we needed. Caster was adjustable with the front
strut rods.
 After
setting that at about 3.0 deg. positive it was throw in a little neg.
toe and on to the Subaru. By the way it was not as easy as this
sounds. With some conflict adjusting frozen bolts and strut rods
it only took us two hours. 8)
 After
putting Tony's WRX on the rack and taking readings everything came up in
factory specs but the steering wheel is crooked when he drives? No
problem adjust the individual toe and out the door. Factory specs
are most of the time not what the autocrosser wants so we have to get
the car back in and make our own specs.
 Dave
took some
pictures as we all talked setup for racing. Jon and Rob helped
explain how the geometry effects the handling of the car and I still
don't know why Rob went with such a radical pos. toe setting in the
back. Still so much to learn. New management has taken over
at my place of employment, Just Tires. The manager was very happy
with having this little get together. He insisted that he clock me
in for the time that we were there and that if I wanted to it would be
ok to do another gathering...Cool. I am sure that in the off
season that we can all use a little info on getting ready for 2004 so
anyone who is interested in learning about alignment geometry (I know I
am) lets get together. Let me know and we will set a date.
The car or cars will be selected by myself this is not an email rush to
get your car in. Just an evening to discuss car set-up.
Thanks for coming out. I had a blast during the alignment clinic
and then had a couple of beers across the street with my father.
See you next time,
Patrick
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