Phil's tire service specs/suggestions for camber/caster with RA1s
Would you guys agree or disagree with these sugestions:
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Phil's Tire Service »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Caster:
As much as possible (very difficult with stock vehicles).
Camber:
Negative 2.5 to negative 5.0 deg. acceptable. anything lower than 2.5 or higher than 5.0 deg. negative will create some irregular wear.
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So according to this, if we're running RA1s (or R888s/NT01s as well i suppose since they allegedly have the exact same compound) we EG/DC2, etc.. owners should definitely swap our front UCAs left to right and right to left to gain us caster (apparently that swap is good for 3 degrees caster roughly.) As well as anything else that increases the caster angle... I'm weary of adding anything more than the 3 degrees from the left-right swap due to having an integra steering rack with PS seals removed in my Civic...
Also, I was searching some more for Caster/R comp threads and came upon this interesting quote in regards to the RTR/tri-point cars on spec RA1s in 2005...
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by RR98ITR »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">
Scott, who saw lots of caster on RTR and Tri-Point cars in 2005... and surely they think they know something...or at the very least they think something...how bout this: there's no apparent dynamic Negative associated with running 6-7 degrees...</TD></TR></TABLE>
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Phil's Tire Service »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Caster:
As much as possible (very difficult with stock vehicles).
Camber:
Negative 2.5 to negative 5.0 deg. acceptable. anything lower than 2.5 or higher than 5.0 deg. negative will create some irregular wear.
</TD></TR></TABLE>
So according to this, if we're running RA1s (or R888s/NT01s as well i suppose since they allegedly have the exact same compound) we EG/DC2, etc.. owners should definitely swap our front UCAs left to right and right to left to gain us caster (apparently that swap is good for 3 degrees caster roughly.) As well as anything else that increases the caster angle... I'm weary of adding anything more than the 3 degrees from the left-right swap due to having an integra steering rack with PS seals removed in my Civic...
Also, I was searching some more for Caster/R comp threads and came upon this interesting quote in regards to the RTR/tri-point cars on spec RA1s in 2005...
<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by RR98ITR »</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">
Scott, who saw lots of caster on RTR and Tri-Point cars in 2005... and surely they think they know something...or at the very least they think something...how bout this: there's no apparent dynamic Negative associated with running 6-7 degrees...</TD></TR></TABLE>
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