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Old 03-17-2015 | 01:24 AM
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I've looked a bit closer at the sheet and I'm going to input to input my car tonight or tomorrow when I have some time.

I have a question about the shock angle. Do meassure it with the A arm level (parallel with a setup board) or at rideheight? I ask because the angle of the shock is changing during when the suspension is working.

And instead of using a protractor, you could also measure the distances between mounting location on the tower, the hingepin of the A arm and the mounting location in the A arm.
Then input the distance on this website http://ostermiller.org/calc/triangle.html and you'll get the angles. I think that could be more accurate than eyeballing it with a protractor in front of the car.
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