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Old Mar 16, 2005 | 01:03 PM
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here is my question. how important to have a good aliment when drag racing? what should it be set at toe and chamber wise?
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Old Mar 16, 2005 | 02:09 PM
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That is a good ? I would like to know the answer to that also? And what are good settings for caster???

alignment is how it is spelled by the way
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Old Mar 16, 2005 | 02:34 PM
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alignment is very important. you want as much tire as possible to make contact with the track
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Old Mar 16, 2005 | 02:59 PM
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I think I understand the camber settings. You want to set the camber to neg X degrees so that when the front end is at the highest point of lift you get 0 degrees of camber which in turn gives you the largest contact patch on the tire. But how does caster and toe affect suspension when it comes to drag racing?
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Old Mar 16, 2005 | 03:12 PM
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well toe would come into affect to avoid the tire from "scrubbing" and waring funny, thats not optimal preformance, and if you allow 1 inch of travel in the rear. so that the front lifts about an inch, i think you want -.5 degrees of camber roughly, and i don't know about caster, someone inform me please
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Old Mar 16, 2005 | 03:16 PM
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https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=448278
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Old Mar 16, 2005 | 03:34 PM
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What about for the rear suspension??? And also I understand that you want positive caster but about how much?? It wasn't very clear in the link posted.
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Old Mar 17, 2005 | 01:01 PM
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no one knows about the caster or rear alignment???
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Old Mar 30, 2005 | 12:23 PM
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what do i set the toe at on each side? not in inches please my hunter machine is in metrics
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Old Mar 30, 2005 | 12:50 PM
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anyone wnat to help me out
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Old Mar 30, 2005 | 04:41 PM
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help
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Old Mar 30, 2005 | 09:30 PM
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someone please
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Old Mar 30, 2005 | 09:55 PM
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for FWD Drag cars, Front: you want positive caster, a little negative camber, and Toe in the tires
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Old Mar 10, 2007 | 04:55 AM
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what have you learned ? read any books lately ?
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