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I will be rolling in to Road Atlanta Friday morning sometime early. I have never checked or set the caster, camber, or tow, front or rear on this car, and haven’t the foggiest idea how to check or adjust it, despite having the tools.
I will bribe anyone with cash, beer or bad jokes if they are available to help me with this task Friday morning.
Double bribe if anyone can help with checking/adjusting the valve lash.
-Scott
Possibility…your car on track with newish tires?
Got temp probe?
What type of rear end adjustment do you have now?
Not to waste time at the track, what are the current settings?
Suggested: front toe out 1/8". Set camber according to temps.
rear toe zero. You typically have to live with the resulting camber that “happens” when you get the toe to zero.
Regards, Robert Patton
I’d have an alignment shop do the work before the race. Otherwise you’re going to need to work on your camber with someone that is used to doing it on non-flat surfaces.
I’ll help you adjust the valves, but I won’t be rolling in until after midnight Saturday morning. The time do to it would be Saturday evening or Sunday morning. Saturday morning we’ll be too busy.
Re. the camber that “happens”. Robert is referring to eccentric rtabs, which you may or may not have. When you adjust eccentric rtabs, both camber and toe change, so often you end up with a compromise.
10-4 on the alignment prior to arrival.
Does anyone have suggestions as to “where to start” other than that that I’ve given?
Add: Camber front 3.5 driver, 3.0 passenger as a start. Tire temps determine the actual.
RP
PS. Valve adjustment is easy. Ranger have you not graduated from the “pay it forward” level one to level two?
(Level three: Stand around, listen, laugh a little at some, and learn from others as the one and two guys teach old dogs new tricks.)
BigKeyserSoze wrote:
[quote]I will be rolling in to Road Atlanta Friday morning sometime early. I have never checked or set the caster, camber, or tow, front or rear on this car, and haven’t the foggiest idea how to check or adjust it, despite having the tools.
I will bribe anyone with cash, beer or bad jokes if they are available to help me with this task Friday morning.
Double bribe if anyone can help with checking/adjusting the valve lash.
-Scott[/quote]
Southeast guys,
Don’t offer this guy any advice or assistance other than to tell him “turn three is flat in fourth”…B)
The man is fast and if you give him any tips, he’ll make you pay…
Scott - don’t let “5th motor Ranger” any where near your car.:silly:
Just kidding on both accounts…I wish I could be there to enjoy the event with you.
Don
Don, yes, Scott’s reputation for speed preceeds his arrival.
We’ll let the fast guys race at the pointy end of the field.
RP
Patton wrote:
[quote]
PS. Valve adjustment is easy. Ranger have you not graduated from the “pay it forward” level one to level two?
(Level three: Stand around, listen, laugh a little at some, and learn from others as the one and two guys teach old dogs new tricks.)[/quote]
Valve adjustment is kinda tricky the first couple of times. By the 4th time, you’ve bought a bent feeler gauge, have a feel for how firmly to push the eccentric, and can get the feeler gauge in place immed. without it getting hung on the valvestem.
Robert’s been doing this for so long that it’s likely to be hard to remember what it was like to be clueless. I remember being clueless like it was yesterday. Because, of course,…
BMW makes a valve adjusting tool, a spring with ends to fit the eccentric…any dealer will have them. You install the feeler gauge, turn the eccentric with the spring tool which puts the perfect tension on the feeler, and tighten the nut…done. CB