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Title: How much castor?? Post by: kev d on October 27, 2008, 22:08:28 pm How much castor is the ideal amount to aim for when setting up a front end on a drag car?
How many deg. do you get with a set of shims? Cheers, Kev Title: Re: How much castor?? Post by: Torben Alstrup on October 28, 2008, 09:59:29 am Depending heavily on top speed. But begin with 5 to 5,5
T Title: Re: How much castor?? Post by: Neil Davies on November 06, 2008, 13:11:18 pm Kev, I ran 2 sets of shims on my car, with 13" front wheels. Always felt very stable. It's probably better to have too much than not enought!
Title: Re: How much castor?? Post by: kev d on November 06, 2008, 17:43:39 pm Cheers Neil 8)
Title: Re: How much castor?? Post by: Martin on November 06, 2008, 17:44:53 pm Hi Kev,
Depends on the rake your running, the more rake, the more castor you have to run to correct the rake (to get it back to stock). I look to get 7deg's total. lovely and stable at 145 mph. Set your car up how you want to run then use a castor gauge to measure the castor and shim to suite. Martin Title: Re: How much castor?? Post by: kev d on November 06, 2008, 23:21:15 pm Cheers for the advice again 8)
Title: Re: How much castor?? Post by: Sweet67 on November 13, 2008, 05:50:07 am In my chassis car, Ron at RLR put on 6 degrees. 6-8 degrees was a mentioned as a good setting.
Title: Re: How much castor?? Post by: Fastbrit on November 13, 2008, 08:40:56 am 90 degrees works – makes the car very stable. Slow, but very stable, and a bitch to turn.
Title: Re: How much castor?? Post by: BeetleBug on November 13, 2008, 09:40:54 am 90 degrees works – makes the car very stable. Slow, but very stable, and a bitch to turn. Take every word he says with a pinch of salt... he just want to make sure no one is faster than him when he gets his new car done. :) Title: Re: How much castor?? Post by: kev d on November 15, 2008, 10:03:42 am 90 degrees works – makes the car very stable. Slow, but very stable, and a bitch to turn. Take every word he says with a pinch of salt... he just want to make sure no one is faster than him when he gets his new car done. :) Surely its more `if` than `when`... ;) Title: Re: How much castor?? Post by: Fastbrit on November 15, 2008, 10:30:44 am 90 degrees works – makes the car very stable. Slow, but very stable, and a bitch to turn. Take every word he says with a pinch of salt... he just want to make sure no one is faster than him when he gets his new car done. :) Surely its more `if` than `when`... ;) |