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The pretzel arm is a real thing. Build em too light and they will morph into one.
It's still nailed down.Likely pull those nails tomorrow nite tho.Yes the rear arms are parallel. No camber gain.Looking for max travel .Any camber gain will reduce travel significantly. If this car was primarily for dirt/desert I'd likely have built in some camber gain and sacraficed a bit of travel. But since this will see mostly sand I feel I'm good. The front is right off Rorty's plans for the R16. A decision I may regret but.....................who knows. Got some spacers/bushings to make so I'll be able to give you some front camber pics soon.
. No camber gain.Looking for max travel .Any camber gain will reduce travel significantly. .
That is eactly why I want to see it.
Can You explain to this dumbarse why this is so?
If the wheel goes into positive camber as it is dropping to full extension (droop), that means that the top of the tire is leaning in.
Please correct me if I am wrong here. But with the tire leaning out from the frame (at the top of the tire) its positive so if it leaned out or positive at the bottom that would allow more travel in droop.Thats why you want it to go negative at the top of its travel as well ( beside tire roll) as if its negative at the top it leans in and is less angle on the CV.But a suspension that creates negative camber at the top usually does it at the bottom (droop) and thats where it takes the angle up with the tire leaning IN (negative) as the tire apporaches its lowest point.
If the wheel goes into positive camber as it is dropping to full extension (droop), that means that the top of the tire is leaning in. When you look at the axle from the rear, at full droop, the axle is coming down from the inner CV to the outer CV, and it turns an angle into the stub shaft. This is where maximum droop is determined, because maximum angle on the CV is reached here. Now if you add 3 degrees of camber, then that camber adds to the angle between the stub shaft and the axle.So if the last 3 degrees, from 22deg to 25deg represents 1.5" of wheel travel, then you won't get that last 1.5 inch because 25 degrees that the outer CV see's actually occurs then the axle is at 22 degrees.Let me start again. If you have 3 degrees of camber, then the stub shaft (wheel) and the transmission shafts are not parallel, so the outer CV is seeing an additional 3 deg that the inner is not. So the outer will be at 25 deg when the inner is at 22. If I haven't explained it just say so and I will draw a picture.