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james3004 13th August 2014 10:39 AM

Rear toe?
 
Not sure if it's been asked before but what should the rear toe be on a Sierra based car, I'm thinking 0 but I doubt that's correct

K4KEV 13th August 2014 11:22 AM

That is what I did mine at 0 toe and 0 camber, straight up and down and side to side;)

MikeB 13th August 2014 12:51 PM

zero toe, never ever toe out on the back. I'll probably put 1/4 deg rear toe in on mine and a little negative camber but haven't got round to playing with it yet.

TSM Locost 13th August 2014 03:27 PM

General setup.
 
Westfield setup from Westfield world.

Front Ride Height Approx 160mm Determined by wheel/tyre combination
Front Camber 1.5 - 2.0 Degrees Negative (Radials) 0.5 - 1.0 Degrees Negative (Crossply Slicks)
Front Toe in/out 0.5 - 1.0 mm Toe in
Front Damping 2 - 3 click from fully soft
Rear Ride Height Approx 170mm - 175mm approx 10mm - 15mm higher than front
Rear Camber (seiw only) 1.0 Degrees Negative 0.5 - 1.0 Degrees Negative (Crossply Slicks)
Rear Toe in/out 0.5 - 1.0 mm Toe in
Rear Damping 2 - 3 clicks from fully soft

james3004 13th August 2014 08:04 PM

I think I'll set it at 0 degrees then!
How does degrees relate to mm?

TalonMotorFabrication 13th August 2014 09:30 PM

It's fairly easy to set both the front and rear to zero toe you just need a 40ft ball of string. Tie it so that it makes a big loop and place it about 200mm up from the ground around all four tyres, the string should be tight against the edges of the tyres. Get on your hands and knees and you should see the difference in the gaps between the string and the edges of the tyres.

vmax1974 13th August 2014 10:18 PM

http://www.circletrack.com/chassiste...ng_your_ car/

this is the string method phil is talking about works really well used to use it for setting up my race cars back in the day

flyerncle 14th August 2014 03:52 PM

thought I had stumbled on to a bondage site,hands and knees and 40 ft of rope .:)

robo 14th August 2014 06:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by james3004 (Post 98266)
I think I'll set it at 0 degrees then!
How does degrees relate to mm?

Its a good starting point but after a shake down it would be worth checking and perhaps experimenting with. Out of the box it will probably be good but with some fine tuning it will be brilliant. There is a utube vid somewhere of a guy and a westie messing with set up at a track, the difference in handling when he finished was quite amazing and it was all in the small detail.

Bob

twinturbo 14th August 2014 09:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TalonMotorFabrication (Post 98269)
It's fairly easy to set both the front and rear to zero toe you just need a 40ft ball of string. Tie it so that it makes a big loop and place it about 200mm up from the ground around all four tyres, the string should be tight against the edges of the tyres. Get on your hands and knees and you should see the difference in the gaps between the string and the edges of the tyres.

its only easy if it's adjustable, which on the rear it's not.

TT


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