Best/Most Versatile 1G Coilover setup?

[jtmcinder]

The keys to setting up a 1G for drag- and road-racing are front camber plates and a good alignment shop that will let you do some messing around. First you leave the camber as low as possible (which will be slightly negative, but near zero) and set the toe to zero. This is your drag-racing set-up. Then you slap the camber plates to full negative and see what happened to your toe. It will be toed-in to some nasty extent, because your steering arms are behind the axis and above the lower ball joint. Very carefully count exactly how many turns it takes on you steering adjusters to re-zero the toe (or a little toe-out if you like that). Then test yourself. Put the camber plates back to upright and undo the changes to the toe and see if you are still at zero toe. If you can do this, then you now have a way to switch back and forth without a trip to the alignment shop. It may take some practice; that's why you want to nice shop. If marking the steering settings is possible, do it.

Run a tiny bit of rear toe-in or zero rear toe all the time ... set it and leave the rear alone.

Which front setting you use for the street is up to you. If they are both zero toe, then tire wear shouldn't be an issue either way. The question is whether you want to turn or launch. You have a 1G, so you can't have both at the same time because your bump-camber curve doesn't come close to keeping up with the effects of body roll. That's where that old saying comes from: if you want the car to be able to turn, then there's no such thing as a free launch.

- Jtoby

 

[mitsumissile]

WHEn's the last time you heard of a good aftermarket part that was manufactured in taiwan ?

until they are proven in some type of professional motorsport i wouldn't touch them.

how can they do r&d on a dsm which was never sold in taiwan ?

We have eclipse in Taiwan. Here is our website. http://61.218.130.229/