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    Trophy Wheel balancing and set up??? A few questions.

    flat floor concrete screed left to self level then leveling pads for good measure
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    Trophy Wheel balancing and set up??? A few questions.

    blatant advert but if anyone wants this sort of work doing in the south east - I can do it www.racecardoctor.com I think you will find most of the big tyre places have hugely expensive machines to do this - myself and all the other motorsport set up places I know use portable guages and...
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    definative answer to trophy weight

    hmmm I'm not very good at this web stuff am I :oops: 1086kgs and all that weight is over the front axle
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    definative answer to trophy weight

    and the result (with a smaller pic!)
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    definative answer to trophy weight

    put my trophy on my race scales...half tank of fuel, no baggage
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    Goodwood FOS in a month!

    I'm going will be there early at doors open as I've got to be back in the workshop by the afternoon
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    Lumbar support

    its not the sender for the seatbelt warning light is it?
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    Camber settings - technical advise request

    http://www.smithees-racetech.com.au/ackerman.html all you wanted to know about ackermann the summary is: nobody really knows for sure, lots of theories, there is a fashion element, with anti ackermann being mainly used in the 1960s, depends a lot on tyres slow corners are always going...
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    Camber settings - technical advise request

    you'll be fine with 12mm bolts, and they are top spec at 12.9. Did you use a plain shank or ones with a cam on? The trophy is quite soft as soon as you put it on a track, but its a road car after all and has to cope with rough surfaces not found on track. You are spot on about rear droop -...
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    lowering the trophy

    most of the changes in the feel and handling of the car will be down to the revised camber and toe settings the less brave of you that are worried about modding your car with new dampers/springs etc may want to take note of that
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    Camber settings - technical advise request

    I've been doing some development work on this, this very day! I was at Goodwood today, not the worlds twistiest circuit - but using a standard clio trophy and changing the camber and toe settings I was able to get an immense improvement in turn in. Probably most importantly increasing the camber...
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