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Old 04-07-2014, 11:37 AM   #18 (permalink)
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It all depends on what your goal is. Different alignments meet different goals.

For street and daily you want one thing for track you want something else.

Caster is most definitely adjusted more commonly on track setups. Since you normally will do a bit of toe in on a track setup, the added caster will add a little bit of the turn in sharpness back. Think about how a shopping cart steers-it has a ton of front caster(hence the name of the wheels on the shopping cart).

Again it's all a little subjective, but just like you don't need racing slicks to drive to work, nor would you want to go to the track with a set of $50.00 UTQG 800 Tire Guy Specials, most track cars tend to do a little toe in on the front for high speed stability, then compensate for that by adding caster. The SPL front camber arms can dial in I think up to -8 or -9 caster for this exact reason.

I can definitely see why at speeds <45MPH toe out in the front and little extra rear camber would work well, would really make the car turn on a dime(and easy to fit into small parking spots lol). It would definitely make the car turn in sharper. But I sure as hell wouldn't want to run that at a track on a windy day going 120 MPH+.
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