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

To: James Sailer <bj8Healey@msn.com>
Subject: Re: [Healeys] End of a Season and Winter Handling Projects
From: Chris Dimmock <austin.healey@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:43:14 +1100
Hi James,
Here's an article I wrote years ago about camber and suspension on  
Healeys.
http://www.myaustinhealey.com/austin_healey_technical_articles.html

Chris

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On 25/11/2009, at 4:30 AM, "James Sailer" <bj8Healey@msn.com> wrote:

> 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
>
> --------------------------------
> Bob Spidell - San Jose, CA
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