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chrisss Forums Junkie Location: melb Registered: May 2002	Re: ra60/ma61 struts - camber Wed, 19 June 2002 13:19 just thought some might like this info when considering a strut swap and were going to use longer control arms to compensate. I found this info on a peugot site : "One thing that should be kept in mind about using long front lower control arms, is it increases the "king pin inclination" (KPI) which has the unfortunate effect of cancelling out the advantages negative camber gain induced by the caster as you turn the wheel (the 504 doesn't actually have King pins but the term King Pin Inclination is still used). I didn't fully appreciate this consequence until a recent talk I had with Carroll Smith (one of the head guys who worked on the suspension development of the Ford GT40) at the recent Formula SAE competition at the Ford proving grounds north of Geelong. I had inadvertently designed too much king pin inclination (7 degrees)into our 600cc Yamaha powered racing car which nullified most of the castor induced negative camber gain. One of the other racing cars (from North Carolina) had 9 degrees of King pin inclination and almost no castor - the effect was that as the wheels turned they took on a really scary degree of positive camber. Lesson - castor is good, King pin inclination is bad." [Report message to a moderator]

	Subject	Poster	Date
	ra60/ma61 struts - camber	chrisss	Tue, 18 June 2002 00:00
	Re: ra60/ma61 struts - camber	justcallmefrank	Tue, 18 June 2002 00:42
	Re: ra60/ma61 struts - camber	humble	Tue, 18 June 2002 01:19
	Re: ra60/ma61 struts - camber	chrisss	Tue, 18 June 2002 06:27
	Re: ra60/ma61 struts - camber	humble	Tue, 18 June 2002 09:40
	Re: ra60/ma61 struts - camber	mrshin	Wed, 19 June 2002 08:54
	Re: ra60/ma61 struts - camber	Norbie	Wed, 19 June 2002 09:35
	Re: ra60/ma61 struts - camber	TE72_Turbo	Wed, 19 June 2002 12:25
	Re: ra60/ma61 struts - camber	chrisss	Wed, 19 June 2002 12:29
	Re: ra60/ma61 struts - camber	TE72_Turbo	Wed, 19 June 2002 13:00
	Re: ra60/ma61 struts - camber	chrisss	Wed, 19 June 2002 13:19
	Re: ra60/ma61 struts - camber	Jonny2TG	Thu, 20 June 2002 04:12
	Re: ra60/ma61 struts - camber	purpleminiep	Fri, 28 June 2002 14:50
	Re: ra60/ma61 struts - camber	daytona	Sun, 30 June 2002 20:05

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