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Originally Posted by Krazed Kanary
Miles, wasn't directed at you, but there are at least three similar threads going at once, and I'm guilty of posting numbers in some as well. No, yours are quite mild. My point was that without the driving skills to utilize/appreciate/evaluate ultimate handling, discussing how to achieve it is a moot point full of nothing but opinions (and you know what they say about opinions...), and we are both wasting our time.
Solstice man, if they use such a maching on the GXP, it must have been broken when mine was built or the delivery guy must have hit a curb with it because mine was not within factory specs nor the same side to side when delivered. I'd be pretty confident the final adjustments are made by hand rather than a machine, and the alignment equipment is only as good as the guy holding the wrenches and how many seconds they give him to set it.
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Which would you trust, a caster derived from steering the front wheels left to right and trying to identify hundredths of a degree change in camber, ignoring the effect of the suspension geometry, and having an outdated lookup table, subject to the possibility of not having the brakes properly locked when measuring it...
...or a
digital angle gage with a direct measurement of tightly controlled, machined holes in an aluminum knuckle? This inclinometer can be checked just like a bubble level, and used on all four corners (yep, the same instrument).
maybe it's just me, but I'll take the ability to measure it directly every time, TYVM. I had a local alignment shop (Belle Tire, no details on location
) that had ZERO idea that rear caster was even an adjustable measurement when I was helping someone set up their Solstice. (If you read this, you're very welcome, thanks for letting me snoop underneath at the same time...
)
When I got the alignment shop to borrow a caster gage from a local dealership, the difference between the 'top of the line laser alignment hunter machine derived caster' and using the caster gage was quite staggering and disappointing. We ain't talking hundreths or tenths, we're talking differences of over 3/4 degrees.
