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RE: TR-6 and Negative Camber

To: "'Triumphs Digest'" <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Subject: RE: TR-6 and Negative Camber
From: "Lanoway, Brian" <Brian_Lanoway@standardaero.ca>
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 08:03:40 -0500 teamfat2.dsl.aros.net id f4PD2HS27775
On May 23, Bill Williams from Atlanta wrote:

Snip:

>My next and final step is to swap around the trailing arm brackets.  The
inner bracket is 3 notches, up.  >The outer bracket is 1 notch up.  Using
some trig, I'm estimating the negative camber to be about 4 = >degrees.
>I would like to leave the ride height were it currently is and just adjust
the camber.  My question is in >using Brian Lanoway's table of 36 possible
bracket combinations.  Do I simply change the inner bracket >to 2 notch down
for a relative camber angle of -4.78 degrees thereby theoretically ending up
with a final >camber of -0.28 degrees?
>Is this the proper way to read his table?

Bill,  you have to go further down the table.    You want to go down the
table from your current bracket combination until you've changed the
relative camber angle 4.5 degrees from that listed for your current bracket
combination - which is listed at 3.80.   With your current combination of 1U
3U, you want to go down the list of combinations until you hit the relative
camber angle in the table of 3.80 + 4.50 = 8.30.   To get this, you could
either use the 1U 2U combination which brings you to 8.21 or 1D 3D which
will take you to 8.33.   Unfortunately, there isn't a combination of
brackets that will allow you to leave the your current inner 3U bracket
alone, and therefore leave your ride height alone, while achieving the
desired new camber.

Hope this helps. 

Regards,
Brian Lanoway
73 TR6 CF6985U
Winnipeg
(lurking in the background and about 30 TR digests behind in my reading)

PS:  For those of you who are interested, my original camber article is
posted in Bob Kohout's TR web site:

http://members.visi.net/~kohout/contents.html
<http://members.visi.net/~kohout/contents.html> 

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