67 rear end negative camber prob...
My 67 is quite stock and sits low with tired torsions. It is a nice profile and it has a few cornering advantages.
However, I am wanting to upgrade my cars stock chrome steel 4.5 X 15 wheel and tire combo. Before I do so...I would like to get my cars rear end much closer to 1 degree of neg camber.
It is probable that my car will require new torsions and shocks. I am prepared for the larger ticket items, but not knowledgeable as to correcting the camber problem. I would like to do this without elevating the car to US bumper height requirements.
Are there any options that you guys can recommend? I would like to maintain the cars very stock condition and keep the lower profile.
But, performance is paramount over the cars original status.
Thanks in advance for you experience and thoughts. Shawn :confused:
Re: thanks for the links TT
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Originally posted by Shawn
I did not review the handicap...er..sorry the index results with my calculator as yet. Mostly, since I could not get past George Taylors 912 times and resulting index.
Tom. (BTW I'm a big time 912/356SC fan) What is he running in that light weight?
How do you folks set the "curve" there anyway?
Shawn-
See this link for an explanation of the "Bench Racer's Index" or BRI as we call it (or the "BS"I, as Curt would call it.) :) I helped instigate and advocate for the idea, based on the same premise as the SCCA PAX index, and gathered the data from several years worth of local events to establish the handicaps for the classes. Of course it is totally unofficial and carries no weight in the year-end awards or anything, it is just something for the drivers to "bench race" with and argue about.
George Taylor is my surf bro and a big woodie fan (he has been restoring a '49 Ford woodie for the last 12 years or so). I got him into Porsches by lending him my '66 S-spec car at an autox about 5 years ago. He was hooked.
A year or two later, he found his 912 parked under a tree in some friend's yard in La Jolla where it had been for 5-10 years or so after developing an engine knock. He paid $500 for it. It has a stock 1600cc 90 HP motor in it. It turned out that the engine knock was because someone had put some long-nosed plugs into it that were hitting the top of the pistons. After changing those out, some cleaning and tuning, addressing some oil leaks, it ran fine, and he started charging the local track events, winning his class the first year.
Of course he has continued to improve the car and he is a natural at car handling, so he has started dominating his class, at big track time trials and autox, and by now is totally upside down on his investment in the car, like most of us, regardless of the original low purchase price. :mad:
TT