tracking/toe settings for the track?

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Mon Mar 12, 2007 2:45 pm

anyone played about with the toe angles

any advise other than stock?

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Mon Mar 12, 2007 9:26 pm

If you're running a useful amount of negative camber, anything other than dead ahead will scrub the insides off your tyres faster than you'll believe.
I dropped mine 40mm, didn't bother getting the tracking done as I was having new tyres fitted a week later.
By that time, both Pirelli P6000s were bald over the inside 2-3 inches :eek:
Conversely, the Toyo Proxes T1-Rs on the front now have done 15k, including a 'Ring trip and have at least 6mm of tread left right across.
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Mon Mar 12, 2007 10:55 pm

so stick with parrellel

cheers mate was just asking advise

and i got it :D

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Thu Mar 29, 2007 9:47 pm

If it's on track then you want about 1mm toe in on the rear and 1-2mm toe out on the front, will help heat tyres quicker and sharpen turn in, might induce mid corner understeer a tad though but it's what most racers run
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Fri Mar 30, 2007 12:42 pm

Taffy wrote:If it's on track then you want about 1mm toe in on the rear and 1-2mm toe out on the front, will help heat tyres quicker and sharpen turn in, might induce mid corner understeer a tad though but it's what most racers run
Where would these measurements be taken? I would have measured toe in/out like camber and castor, in degrees.

But you're probably right that, for a track car, tyre wear isn't the biggest issue :)
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