Awesome guys and gals, well done...when is the next one?

 

To set the scene it was the end of the day, on my last run. I looked up to see Kalli driving toward the skidpan entry so I knew I only had 1 more shot to go around. Took a deep breath and hit the gas and there I went, one complete circuit of the skidpan totally sideways and Auzoom caught the entire lap on camera

Watching the 3 of us today you could see the improvement from last week. I think a lot of it has to do with us having more confidence today. It is just so much fun!

 

Kalli! what can I say, wasnt your day today ;-) 4 stalls!!!! Then again, wasnt mine either:-( Little less caffeine for me next time as I was just going way to fast.

Stu, I want a drug test on you!!! And my wife!

Not much descent footage but the one of Stu was great...71 meg though http://rx-8.harrisfamily.id.au/sideways/Stuart.avi

Short one also of Kalli http://rx-8.harrisfamily.id.au/sideways/Kalli1.wmv and one of my wife http://rx-8.harrisfamily.id.au/sideways/Paula.wmv

Enjoy...Thanks again Kevin...See you in a month or so.

Andrew

PS...They are all big files Right Click-> Save Target As

 

Looked great.....well done stu....some real style there....loved it

 

Here is one of how NOT to do it. This kind of summed up my day...In a hurry!
http://rx-8.harrisfamily.id.au/sidew...dDoesntPay.wmv

Here is about the only time I got it reasonably together http://rx-8.harrisfamily.id.au/sideways/Me.wmv

Danielle, I have one of you coming but its big...

Andrew

 

Here you go...Danielle http://rx-8.harrisfamily.id.au/sideways/Danielle.wmv

Andrew

 

Danielle is a genius... see her improvement... oh my

 

Hey we started talking about the affect of the days on Alignment. Just had my Camber, Castor and toe adjusted as well as an alignment. Have a look at these figures:

Camber (Before/After):
Front Left: -0.21/-1.08
Front Right: -0.26/-1.26
Rear Left: -1.39/-1.41
Rear Right: -1.26/-1.30

Castor (Before/After):
Front Left: +6.19/+6.15
Front Right: +7.19/+6.19

Individual Toe (Before/After):
Front Left: -2.6mm/+0.1mm
Front Right: -2.6m/+0.1mm
Rear Left: -5.9/+0.5
Rear Right: -2.6/+0.4

Not saying that skid pan has anything or everything, but geez car drives like dream around corners now.

ANdrew

 

Interesting you have less camber on the left and Winton is going anti-clockwise and you are 90kg+ tall fellow. ... are you sure you get the right number? What is the cross-camber?

 

HA HA, very polite of you, but in fact I am 110kg's. I asked them for a balanced setup and unfortunately its not perfect but its pretty close in my eyes.

Cross camber is just the difference between left and right so on the front it was -0.13 and is now -0.11 on the rear it was +0.05 and is now +0.18.

My main point was the toe, it was really bad before hand.

Andrew

 

The toe should be better now

 

OMG - I just wish I understood what all that actually meant!!!!!
anyone running a day course on the RX8 and what everything does and means? Put me down NOW!!!!

 

Simple...let me try and explain.

Camber is when you look at your tyres from say the back of your cars. They are at 0 degrees when they point perfectly straight up and down. When they go negative the tyres are leaning inwards, positive ... outwards. From the rear it would look like this for negative camber

/------\
R/L R/R

Toe is when you look at the tyres from say above. They are at 0 degrees when pointing straight ahead, negative is when the tyres are pointing as if they are turning outwards, positive when they are pointing inwards. From above negative would look like this
F/L F/R
\------/

\------/
R/L R/R
Caster is when you look at a tyre from side on. The suspension setup points straight up in the air when its 0 degrees, positive is when they lean forwards and negative is backwards. From the side, negative would look like this

/ /
O O
Rear Front

I think that is right...Anyone feel free to correct me.

Andrew

 

There are degress of prefection. for example, while a negative camber will cause unevern tyre wear it can make the car handle brilliantly around twisty turns. To the same extend certain toe setting can make the car handle fantastic in a straight line or through corners depending which way you go.

Andrew

 

Your alignment score is A+ auzoom. That is what the alignment guys explained to me first time I went there - well done

 

Cheers mate :-D