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Date:         Wed, 1 Aug 2001 16:54:35 -0700
Reply-To:     Sudhir Desai <desa4622@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         Sudhir Desai <desa4622@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Kingpin inclination spec for Vanagons?
Comments: To: DaveC <voicebox@DNAI.COM>
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From my meager experience at uncle skippy's place (aka skip barber racing school), here goes. (Ed. note. this is an exerpt from a doctoral dissertation by Seok Min Lee, circa 1466 BC on the high performance modifications of single seat raing chariots.)

" CAMBER: The degree to which the tire/wheel is not perpendicular to the horizontal plane running through the center of the hub when looking at the vehicle head-on. Usually, this is a bad thing to have too much negative? camber with the bottom edge of the tire wider than the top edge, but when road racing, it is sometimes a good thing because when the outside tire becomes loaded, the weight shift and resulting lean of the car shift the full width of the tire into contact with the road surface. Having alot of ?negative? camber will also exponentially reduce the life of the tire.

CASTER: The degree to which the front/rear suspension upright/strut tower is not perpendicular to the horizontal plane running through the center of the hub when looking at the vehicle from the side. A Harley with high-bars and laid back seating is more conducive to high-speed highway cruising than dicing it up in the city with the rice-rockets.

TOE-IN: The degree to which the front/rear wheels/tires are not parallel with the vertical plane passing through the front/rear hub. The more toe-in, the more responsive/twitchy the vehicle at turn-in.

DROOP: The amount of negative travel in the suspension (on a normal Cartesian x-y graph with positive being in the "upwards" direction). For example, the A3 Jetta/Golf have almost no suspension droop leading to the inner rear tire lifting off the ground during auto-crosses/road races/high speed maneuvers while running from cops in south-central Idaho."

thought that would take longer to wri.... i mean copy than it did. peace, out. -sudhir

===== Sudhir Desai desa4622@kettering.edu desa4622@yahoo.com 1984 Vanagon Z34(soon to be S4) & 1996 Jetta Trek icq# 8255956 -- AOL: rawsuds -- yahoopager: desa4622

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