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Re: [Fot] GT6 suspension set-up

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Subject: Re: [Fot] GT6 suspension set-up
From: Andre Rousseau <andre@gt6.ca>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:07:28 -0400
A little rear camber?

http://andrerousseau.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/img_3685.jpg
http://andrerousseau.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/img_3687.jpg

A.

On 11 August 2010 11:38, Jason Ostrowski <jason@multivintage.com> wrote:
> All,
> Another memory from my childhood Triumph dreams from the paddock that
> concern rear suspension... You could almost tell who the fast Triumphs were
> going to be by looking at the way the car sat on the jack stands. The cars
> whose rear wheels and axles were flat and still nicely tucked under the
> fenders were going to fly. The ones that sagged to the grass...well not so
> much. When I was looking to buy a car I wanted one that when you jacked up
> rear... the wheels went up too!
>
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Jason Ostrowski
<jason@multivintage.com>wrote:
>
>> Yep, I can remember several instances In the long ago past where we used
to
>> walk the paddock after a big SCCA weekend at Road America looking for
"used"
>> FF tires to use on our Club Raced Spitfires and Gt6's... That still had
>> plenty of life left in them to run up front in a Triumph in Midwestern
>> Council.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 9:53 AM, <rjl6n@cstone.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Jason,
>>>
>>> On Wed, August 11, 2010 10:16 am, Jason Ostrowski wrote:
>>> > we use hoosier street T.D.'s and although quite expensive and
>>> > not long lasting (half a season for the fronts)
>>>
>>> I had to chuckle when I read that.  I guess its all relative!
>>> I was lucky to get two race weekends out of a set of tires
>>> on my FF.  If I wanted to stay at the front, I needed fresh
>>> tires every weekend.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> John
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