Originally Posted by Three
xtrememadness:
I believe that the "old skool" front suspension has 1.5 or 2 degrees of camber and 2 degrees of castor already molded in. That is why it is hard to machine the front arms down to use smaller tires (must trim the steering blocks).
When i ran the old skool front end on my Rev3 and rev 4 I had slivers of paper and card stock of every thickness. header cards, business cards, thick letter stock, thin paper. I was pretty obsessive about getting the camber,
axle height and caster even side to side. Took hours some nights. Dead balls on axle height was the most important, followed by camber then caster-though none should be way out.
Also-there have been some companies that have milled the old school arms down to run smaller tires on the SM cars and to make the arms "bluepinted".
Ray