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Re: [Healeys] End of a Season and Winter Handling Projects

To: "Bob Spidell" <bspidell@comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [Healeys] End of a Season and Winter Handling Projects
From: "James Sailer" <bj8Healey@msn.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:30:39 -0700
Bob,  Thanks.  Do you have words of wisdom/starting places for me to get out
positive camber? Any different alignment than standard?  My sway bar has been
switched out to be a large one.



From: Bob Spidell
Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 9:55 AM
To: James Sailer
Cc: Alan Seigrist ; Healey List
Subject: Re: [Healeys] End of a Season and Winter Handling Projects


I've got 185/70H-15 Vredestein Sprint Classics on 6-inch sealed Dayton wires.
The biggest effect on handling I got was from getting as much positive camber
out as possible with offset bushings (my BJ8 had excessive pos. camber) and
getting a good alignment.  Turnins to corners became much more decisive and
true instantly (I think the pos. camber was a holdover from when Healeys came
with bias-ply tires).

I put a larger (Addco) sway bar on, which keeps the car flatter in corners,
but it increased the steering effort.  Roller thrust bearings in the upper
trunnions alleviated that problem.

The Vreds are plenty sticky for my driving, last up to 30K miles and haven't
given me any surprises (decent in the wet, too).

I got behind a tuner boy on a windy mountain road the other day who wouldn't
let me pass until he scared himself and/or his girlfriend made him pull over.


bs

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