What about this alignment?

[The Geographer]

Hey guys,

Since I got the car, the alignment has not been set (i doubt it was before), and it is next on my list. I have no experience, but after reading after a lot I came up with the following settings. I would use it on street mainly (twisty b-roads), maybe some autosolo/trackday events in the future. What I want, is a bit more responsiveness and less understeer, but rear end stability at higher speeds.

What do you think of this?

Front:

Caster: +5°
Camber: -0.7°
Toe: 1/16

Rear:

Camber: -1.2°
Toe: 1/16 in

[Trefy5]

Depends on various things... including what springs you're on

Worth ringing WiM for advice

I have photos of mine on standard springs and on eibachs but mine's a mk3 so...

[skinny]

looks like a fine starting place - you might want to tweak after you've driven it for a bit tho. think i had something similar on mine (before i was stupid and changed it to improve turn in, which turned out should have been done with stiffer suspension rather than alignment) and it was nice, the rear was really planted at high speed.

[Ab Shocks]

The Geographer said:

Hey guys,

Since I got the car, the alignment has not been set (i doubt it was before), and it is next on my list. I have no experience, but after reading after a lot I came up with the following settings. I would use it on street mainly (twisty b-roads), maybe some autosolo/trackday events in the future. What I want, is a bit more responsiveness and less understeer, but rear end stability at higher speeds.

What do you think of this?

Front:

Caster: +5°
Camber: -0.7°
Toe: 1/16

Rear:

Camber: -1.2°
Toe: 1/16 in

Thats a nice safe fast road set up, not too sharp on turn in on a daily drive

[Odie]

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

If you check out that thread and scroll down, their is a scan of my mk2.5 before and after laser alignment. Thats WIM fast road settings.

[Odie]

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

Have a read of this thread.

[Evangelion]

I'd be inclined to go for slightly more negative camber at the front and slightly less at the rear, say -1° at both ends. On the other hand some people will tell you it's the toe that's most important, not the camber.