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Old 11-22-2007, 04:05 AM
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Default How to increase castor and camber?

G'day All

Just reviewing what is possible to achieve with my front suspension and wanted to sound out people's experience.

My front suspension set up, consisting of S2 lower arms & S1 uppers in my GForce, only achieved camber settings of around - 0.5 degrees with about +2.5 degrees castor at alignment.

I believe the upper arms are handed rearward with all three spacers at the front, so maximising castor in this configuration.

What I want to try and find out from anyone with this exposure, particularly in a GForce or RMC kit, is how you could help increase castor without loss of camber. In fact I'd like achieve around - 3 degrees camber with + 3 - 4 degrees castor.

Can anyone suggest changes I could try to help the settings I have, short of chassis changes.

Series 2 uppers are fractionally shorter from the pivot arm so would help increase negative camber, but even with shims at front, I am assuming their lack of handedness compared to series 1 arms would mean they'd offer less castor than I can presently achieve.

Car is currently jacked up at front for engineering and I understand lowering will somewhat help but I think this will only be a marginal effect on both settings

I look forward to your comments and advice.

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