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Qik Nip
Joined: 16 Jan 2015 Posts: 130 Location: Kentucky
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Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2017 3:33 am Post subject: Any rear camber tricks ??? |
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Now that I've lowered the 924 about 4" to better its aero, I've found that the rear camber adjustment doesn't have enough slack to restore those wheels to zero camber. With all of the adjustment I can muster, I'm stuck at about negative 2 degrees. I've even tinkered with the toe and ride height to try to trick in some additional camber, but seem to have hit a wall at this point.
Any ideas out there on what else I can do aside from doing metal surgery on the parts? While I suppose I can run the car as is, I'm a bit conserned with stability at high speed and traction loss under acceleration. _________________ '79 NA 924 Land Speed Car
Bonneville G/CPRO record @ 149.825MPH
Arkansas Mile G/CPRO record @ 138.0 MPH
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Cedric
Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 2614 Location: Sweden
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Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2017 4:16 am Post subject: |
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In my world - 2degs is spot on for a track car, should be very stable if you got the toe angle correct. I haven't driven more than 230km/h on track and that was very stable, i have around - 2.9in front amd - 2 at the rear. _________________ 1980 924 Turbo
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Fifty50Plus
Joined: 28 Feb 2008 Posts: 1361 Location: Washington DC area
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Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2017 4:26 am Post subject: |
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For your land speed record car, you will have to modify the trailing arm inner bushing mounts to get to zero camber. Try elongating the bolt holes in the rear subframe assy. _________________ 1979 924 NA race car
1982 924 NA race car - Sold
1982 924 Turbo almost a PoS
1981 924 Turbo a real PoS, new engine
1982 924 Turbo nice body, blown engine
1972 911 E race car - going to Vintage
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Qik Nip
Joined: 16 Jan 2015 Posts: 130 Location: Kentucky
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Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2017 2:35 am Post subject: |
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Fifty50Plus wrote: | For your land speed record car, you will have to modify the trailing arm inner bushing mounts to get to zero camber. Try elongating the bolt holes in the rear subframe assy. |
Fifty+:
Thanks for the input. As I think through this interesting (and pretty doable) idea, I don't understand how (effectively) shortening or lengthening the trailing arms will create additional positive camber adjustment. In my mind's eye I can see it altering toe, but I don't understand how it will offset too much negaive camber. Can you give me a short tutorial? I'd really appreciate it.
Rick _________________ '79 NA 924 Land Speed Car
Bonneville G/CPRO record @ 149.825MPH
Arkansas Mile G/CPRO record @ 138.0 MPH
Great Lakes SCCA SM points champion '09,'10,'11 |
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924RACR
Joined: 29 Jul 2001 Posts: 8815 Location: Royal Oak, MI, USA
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Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2017 3:12 am Post subject: |
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I think the inner point will need to be moved upward... _________________ Vaughan Scott
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'79 924 #77 SCCA H Prod racecar
'82 931 Plat. Silver
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Fifty50Plus
Joined: 28 Feb 2008 Posts: 1361 Location: Washington DC area
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Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2017 3:39 am Post subject: |
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Vaughan has got it. Vertical adjustments to the inner trailing arm change camber and horizontal adjustments would change toe.
Regards,
Chuck
I mean that you don't do anything to the trailing arm itself but elongate the mounting points on the rear subframe. _________________ 1979 924 NA race car
1982 924 NA race car - Sold
1982 924 Turbo almost a PoS
1981 924 Turbo a real PoS, new engine
1982 924 Turbo nice body, blown engine
1972 911 E race car - going to Vintage
Various 944s to become IT-S race car |
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morghen
Joined: 21 Jan 2005 Posts: 8884 Location: Romania
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Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2017 7:17 pm Post subject: |
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Be careful though you're increasing the leverage on the trailing blade, I would consider the amount of flex/twist inflicted to the blade and the effect it has on suspension. I'm not saying its a bad thing to do, I'm just thinking that further elongating the holes may twist the trailing blade more and while limiting the camber gain because of blade flexibility it may also have an alternate effect on the suspension. From my point of view you're on uncharted ground if you do this mod.
I did a similar mod(elongated holes) on the front end...my early struts to accept late spindles and keep early strut orientation while keeping camber in specs. It has held up well until now. _________________ https://www.the924.com |
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Cedric
Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 2614 Location: Sweden
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Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2017 12:17 am Post subject: |
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I still dont get why you need so little camber? _________________ 1980 924 Turbo
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morghen
Joined: 21 Jan 2005 Posts: 8884 Location: Romania
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Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2017 12:48 am Post subject: |
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More stability?
My experience is that if the car has the opportunity to flinch left or right(say a small change in grip) it will with 2.5deg of camber per wheel versus the more stable less camber alternative where the car feels less eager to flinch left or right when small changes in grip occurs. _________________ https://www.the924.com |
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Cedric
Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 2614 Location: Sweden
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Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2017 12:56 am Post subject: |
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morghen wrote: | More stability?
My experience is that if the car has the opportunity to flinch left or right(say a small change in grip) it will with 2.5deg of camber per wheel versus the more stable less camber alternative where the car feels less eager to flinch left or right when small changes in grip occurs. |
Maybe for tramlining on very bad roads with deep grooves. Otherwise at speed it shouldnt be a problem, were not talking 380km/h here, i suppose . Ive driven 944s2 race car with -4,5 degrees aswell, stable as a rock, as long as you kept it out of city streets, most racecars have lots of camber. But im not sure what surfaces he drive on, thus the question. Im an asphalt guy _________________ 1980 924 Turbo
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morghen
Joined: 21 Jan 2005 Posts: 8884 Location: Romania
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Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2017 5:03 pm Post subject: |
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Would be very interesting to see how the salt bed is for a drive surface indeed. This is a very interesting application of the 924.
Would love to see some pictures of the 924 on the actual salt bed and to know what speeds does it actually reach there _________________ https://www.the924.com |
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Qik Nip
Joined: 16 Jan 2015 Posts: 130 Location: Kentucky
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Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2017 10:38 am Post subject: |
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First, thanks for addressing the direction of the desired elongation. Vertical movement would indeed address camber. To address some of the questions here, the Bonneville salt surface is anything but smooth. It's more on the order of a semi-smooth, hard packed dirt road with fault cracks that are generally not parellel to the direction of travel. Grip is pretty marginal and is exacerbated by the fact that you're running on tires that are quite narrow and which are generally somewhat rounded in profile. I'm currently running 4" wide Hoosier drag fronts on all four corners.
As for speed, we ran roughly 150 at the exit of the second mile and averaged 141 for the mile (the record was 138). At that speed the car's handling was "interesting", with it drifting roughly six inches side to side at speeds above 125 at a frequency of about a half second. Land Speed racing tends to be a balancing act between traction and power. Land speed racers have a saying... "If it spins the tires, add ballast. If it doesn't, add horsepower".
With the car lowered 4", adding Mooneye wheel covers and tweaking the aero here and there within the limits of the 2.0 liter Classic Production rules, we're hoping for a 150 average mile run this year.
P.S. If I can ever figure out how to post a picture here, I'll do so.
Rick _________________ '79 NA 924 Land Speed Car
Bonneville G/CPRO record @ 149.825MPH
Arkansas Mile G/CPRO record @ 138.0 MPH
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Cedric
Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 2614 Location: Sweden
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Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2017 4:35 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the answer, very interesting setup indeed, 4" drags on "dirt", very different world of car racing.
How limited are you when it comes to underbody areo mods?
With 4" lowering, have you done anyhting to correct the front suspension geometry? If you havent I would start adressing these issues to significantly reduce bump steer and undesired camber changes.
If you want you can drag and drop the picture files into my google drive folder, I can then uppload them to the board for you !
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B3GfYntUoi5ac2JjWWZrdHJBNlE?usp=sharing _________________ 1980 924 Turbo
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Qik Nip
Joined: 16 Jan 2015 Posts: 130 Location: Kentucky
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Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2017 1:21 am Post subject: |
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Cédric wrote: | Thanks for the answer, very interesting setup indeed, 4" drags on "dirt", very different world of car racing.
How limited are you when it comes to underbody areo mods?
With 4" lowering, have you done anyhting to correct the front suspension geometry? If you havent I would start adressing these issues to significantly reduce bump steer and undesired camber changes.
If you want you can drag and drop the picture files into my google drive folder, I can then uppload them to the board for you !
Cedric:
One of the wonderful engineering aspects of the 924's front suspension geometry is that there is actually very little camber change as it goes through it's range of vertical motion. As for bump steer, I can pretty well dismiss it on the car as it's configured for land speed use since there's very little attitude change given the surface, lack of hard braking and no turns . As for the offer to upload the pictures, I'll dig up a few
and try to drop them in your G drive. Thanks!
Rick
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B3GfYntUoi5ac2JjWWZrdHJBNlE?usp=sharing |
_________________ '79 NA 924 Land Speed Car
Bonneville G/CPRO record @ 149.825MPH
Arkansas Mile G/CPRO record @ 138.0 MPH
Great Lakes SCCA SM points champion '09,'10,'11 |
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Qik Nip
Joined: 16 Jan 2015 Posts: 130 Location: Kentucky
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Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2017 1:19 pm Post subject: Picture of the 924 on the salt |
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Assuming this actually works, here's the requested picture of the 924 just after breaking the existing G/CPRO record at Bonneville. That's me looking under the car to see if everything stayed put, while two of the crew calmly discussed what we were having for lunch while sitting
in inpound!
[img][/url] _________________ '79 NA 924 Land Speed Car
Bonneville G/CPRO record @ 149.825MPH
Arkansas Mile G/CPRO record @ 138.0 MPH
Great Lakes SCCA SM points champion '09,'10,'11 |
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