Wheel alignment settings

[Anil]

Hi All

I have just had a 4 wheel alignment performed on my 1988 3.2 Carrera by a Porsche specialist, after having turbo tie rods and Neatrix rear spring plate bushes fitted and lowering it slightly to about 24.75in in the front and 24.25in in the rear. I have also fitted an ERP bump steer kit to the turbo tie rods.


The specs are as follows :

FRONT

Camber L= -0,21' R= -0,24'
Caster L= +6,39' R= +6,12'
Toe L= +0,07' R= +0,07'


REAR

Camber L= -0,38' R= -0,38'
Toe L= +0,13' R= +0,13'


These are apparently set to Porsche standard settings. Does the camber seem a little too conservative even for road use?

I had my last alignment done after replacing my shocks a couple of years ago, and that specialist set the car up with toe in on both front and rear, rather than the toe out I currently have. What differences should this make?

I would be interested to see what settings other people have done on their 3.2s for road use.


Thanks

Anil

 

[Guest]

You should never have toe out on the rear - I assumed reading your data that the positive numbers meant toe in. Are the numbers degrees and minutes?

The camber is very conservative. I never ask for factory settings. For road use, I would refer a little more camber - something like -0.5 degrees front and -1.0 rear. To be honest you probably won't notice the difference though.

HTH
Richard