[DeTomaso] Alignment specs GT5-S

Thomas Törnblom thomas at hax.se
Thu Apr 16 04:43:19 EDT 2020


I believe you want to have as much caster as you can get with bushings 
and milled ball joints on wide body cars, but go with factory camber and 
toe.

Thomas

Den 2020-04-16 kl. 09:57, skrev charlesmccall at gmail.com:
> OK, so why do we install offset bushings, modify the ball joints? Etc? Is that because the factory specs are theoretically good but you can't get there with stock parts? I thought that one of the objectives was to reduce tramlining on the wide body cars?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Drew <MikeLDrew at aol.com>
> Sent: jueves, 16 de abril de 2020 13:25
> To: charlesmccall at gmail.com
> Cc: detomaso at server.detomasolist.com
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Alignment specs GT5-S
>
> Charlie,
>
> Apart from a bit more caster, I believe the stock GT5 specs are very appropriate for street driving.
>
> Does anybody else disagree?  I don’t claim specific expertise here; I’m working on intuition informed by the factory specs.
>
> Mike
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
>> On Apr 16, 2020, at 00:51, charlesmccall at gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for this Mike. This is stock - what is desirable?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mike Drew <MikeLDrew at aol.com>
>> Sent: jueves, 16 de abril de 2020 13:20
>> To: charlesmccall at gmail.com
>> Cc: detomaso at server.detomasolist.com
>> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Alignment specs GT5-S
>>
>> Charlie,
>>
>> Stock specs attached:
>>
>>
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