Geometry done today and results.

[snowwolf]

After my 650 mile journey the other day I noticed the car did not feel right at high speed, tended to drift about all over the place on the roads, called the fish today and he suggested having the geometry checked out.

The two photo's below show the before and after, the car now feels 100% better on the journey I had coming back from Elite in Essex, all the twitching and the constant need to keep correcting the car has gone, also it used to want to pull to the left if you let go of the wheel.

Perhaps when I hit that rock the other week with the drivers front wheel, perhaps that did it?

Edited by snowwolf on Friday 12th March 16:27

[snowwolf]

after

[ARAF]

That was a good guess.

If you put a fast road set on there, then it would feel even more planted - but you'd probably suffer a bit more oversteer when provoked.

Did they say why they didn't sort out the nsf caster?

[kaw]

would like to get the fast roed set up on the r8 but don't know the settings and find someone local to me to do the work

[snowwolf]

ARAF said:

That was a good guess.

If you put a fast road set on there, then it would feel even more planted - but you'd probably suffer a bit more oversteer when provoked.

Did they say why they didn't sort out the nsf caster?

When he circled the things he could alter in the first pic, he did say he could ot alter the caster, as I dont know anything about this I just accepted that he could not alter it

[ARAF]

Okay, sounds like there's no adjustment on it, which isn't that unusual. Unfortunately (for you), caster has the most effect on 'wandering' though, so it would have been handy. Still, it's close to the o/s, and it's not as if roads are billiard table smooth.

[Tattooboy]

ARAF said:

Okay, sounds like there's no adjustment on it, which isn't that unusual. Unfortunately (for you), caster has the most effect on 'wandering' though, so it would have been handy. Still, it's close to the o/s, and it's not as if roads are billiard table smooth.

As long as he goes in a straight line without turning, he'll be fine

[monkfish1]

snowwolf said:

ARAF said:

That was a good guess.

If you put a fast road set on there, then it would feel even more planted - but you'd probably suffer a bit more oversteer when provoked.

Did they say why they didn't sort out the nsf caster?

When he circled the things he could alter in the first pic, he did say he could ot alter the caster, as I dont know anything about this I just accepted that he could not alter it

The castor can be adjusted if you have a road response pac The higher figure on the left is a deliberate thing to conteract road camber.

[ferb]

monkfish1 said:

snowwolf said:

ARAF said:

That was a good guess.

If you put a fast road set on there, then it would feel even more planted - but you'd probably suffer a bit more oversteer when provoked.

Did they say why they didn't sort out the nsf caster?

When he circled the things he could alter in the first pic, he did say he could ot alter the caster, as I dont know anything about this I just accepted that he could not alter it

The castor can be adjusted if you have a road response pac The higher figure on the left is a deliberate thing to counteract road camber.

The road response pack is well recommended :Thumbup: Stops the movement at the front plus generally makes it feel more stable when braking.