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Jayem
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Re: increases in track width -good / bad? Tue, 03 May 2005 11:17 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
I tried effects of alternated scrub radius by playing with rims.

Conclusion: with rims that wide the track, steering felt un-sharp and sloppy compared to original setup, not by much thou. Of course there were some increased tramlining also. I'm not conserned about bearing issues after watched rally cars. Most cars here use offset of +10 to -10 and these cars dont have issues after long jumps and coarse competitions... My friend has AE86 rallycar and I have been maintenance man for him.

and with Saab rims (ET45) car was very VERY weird!!! It was going all over the place. Like when you were driving 80kmh car went straight (occasionally) and all the sudden steering wheel shooted to extreme position or allmost atleast. I'm not going to test Saab rims anymore, It felt that dangerous. My two friends have reported about same symptoms with Saab rims. Cars were my TT132 Corona, TA40 Carina and 180B sss Datsun.
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Read Message   increases in track width -good / bad? white86Sat, 30 April 2005 00:38
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