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Originally Posted by ROB-80E
That url above is probably one of the best, simplest explainations of all aspects. I suggest you read before next time you tell someone that caster has got to do with "maintaining full contact patch".
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the url is fine and dandy.. and with the exception of what 'scrub radius' is.. nothing i didn't know... BUT... and if you knew what the 'acutual' effects of caster were, and not just from an internet page designed to explain in laymans terms, you'd know that caster had a DIRECT result on a: camber, and b: ride height...
a car can have zero static camber (that is, when the wheels are pointed straight ahead), and yet have camber whilst cornering because that's what caster does... it allows the wheels to have maximum contact with the road for braking and accelerating, whilst allowing enough camber to corner sufficiently...
you acheive this by leaning the tower backwards (or as its known) positive camber :roll: try it at home.. any factory car has very little camber that way maintaining good braking, yet when you turns the wheels... it suddenly gains camber... why.. cause it has CASTER.... now, do the same with a shopping car wheel (from your know it all website).. and funny that.. no matter where you turn it, it doesn't get camber... :roll:
the difference is that the pivot axis is vertical.. thus having no caster!!!
the setback is that too much positive camber effects a cars right height.. try that at home too.. turns the wheels to lock and notice the car sit up :P (this also has a little to do with KPI, or King pin inclination... but not as much)....
now.. funny how i can quote real world facts and your quoting internet pages.... :roll:
DON'T EVER SAY I DON'T KNOW SUSPENSION!!!
its the one thing i do know backwards... notice i comment very little about engines, or gearboxes, or sound systems etc. etc.. why??? because i openly admit i know very little about them.....
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Originally Posted by ROB-80E
because you tried to make me look like a complete idiot
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you did that all by yourself champion :wink: