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banga
Joined: Tue Nov 17, 2009 10:30 pm Posts: 668 Location: sunshine coast
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Just for all those guys running a calmini kit in their vits on stock rims. i am one of them i have a set of 235 75 15 on stock rims with camber bolts and can only get 5degs of pos camber on the front. I put my muddies on the other day 235 75 15 on 15 by 7 -13 and now i have neg camber (with out touching camber bolts) i was shocked at how much difference it made the car drive like a completely different car so much better that i am going to chase up a set of rims for my road tyres. so when calmini say it is designed for -13 rims they mean it. the front used to way harder than the back but now it is matched more even which makes the car feel more balanced on and off road.
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11_evl
Joined: Tue Apr 10, 2007 11:30 pm Posts: 846 Location: logan reserve, Brisb
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Does that mean the extra offset off the rims is causing more leverage on components making more camber??
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Gwagensteve
Joined: Thu Feb 26, 2009 10:30 pm Posts: 13007 Location: Melbourne
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The increased leverage effectively lowers the spring rate which pulls the camber into spec
Just more suspension fail calmini.
Steve
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FullyZooked

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Joined: Mon Oct 25, 2010 9:01 am Posts: 1009 Location: Bendigo
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Steve if you were to build control arms to maximize lift and travel, how would you do this without running into the inherent camber issues of IFS?
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atari4x4

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Joined: Mon Dec 11, 2006 10:30 pm Posts: 34842 Location: East Radelayed
Vehicle: SV420+SV620 Vitara's
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FullyZooked wrote: Steve if you were to build control arms to maximize lift and travel, how would you do this without running into the inherent camber issues of IFS?
uneven length upper & lower wishbones.
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FullyZooked

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Joined: Mon Oct 25, 2010 9:01 am Posts: 1009 Location: Bendigo
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That's no probs Atari.
How would it be done using a single lower control arm, such as Calminis and still use the strut as the top mount point. Can't be done without a pivot point on the lower strut mount.
Any design that utilizes this setup is going to run into camber issues somewhere in the total travel whether it be negative camber at full droop or positive under load/compressed.
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Chop

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Joined: Sat Aug 12, 2006 11:30 pm Posts: 6456 Location: Radelaide ofcourse!
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Another reason they say the kit is made for a minimum size tyre of 30".
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