[DeTomaso] Track ride height

[mark skwarek]

That is my plan to have the car corner weighted and realigned at the same time. Had alot of fun at Pocono last weekend and want to do better.

--- On Wed, 6/29/11, Julian Kift <julian_kift at hotmail.com> wrote:

From: Julian Kift <julian_kift at hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: [DeTomaso] Track ride height
To: mikeldrew at aol.com, ehpantera at yahoo.com, "De Tomaso List" <detomaso at realbig.com>
Date: Wednesday, June 29, 2011, 12:09 AM






If you are serious you should ideally do this whilst the car is on a set of corner weigh scales and set it up according to weight dsitribution.

 

Julian
 


> From: MikeLDrew at aol.com
> Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 16:53:45 -0400
> To: ehpantera at yahoo.com; detomaso at realbig.com
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Track ride height
> 
> 
> In a message dated 6/28/11 13 36 39, ehpantera at yahoo.com writes:
> 
> 
> > I have new adjustable shocks and now need to adjust their ride height for 
> > track use. I would appreciate recommendations.
> > 
> 
> Very generally, you want the lower rear A-arms to be parallel, or almost 
> parallel to the ground (the car slightly raised, with the A-arms drooping 
> downwards just slightly, is preferable--if you go past parallel and lower the 
> car behind the point where the A-arms are level/parallel with the ground you 
> start messing up the suspension curve.
> 
> The front end should be set so that there is slight nose-down rake. 
> Measure the body at the front and rear of the rocker panels (between the wheels); 
> the front should be slightly lower than the rear.
> 
> Mike
> _______________________________________________
> 
> Detomaso Forum Managed by POCA
> 
> Archive Search Engine Now Available at http://www.realbig.com/detomaso/
> 
> DeTomaso mailing list
> DeTomaso at list.realbig.com
> http://list.realbig.com/mailman/listinfo/detomaso