San Antonio Meet Thread

[Jyn]

Hm, might be too low now, but I'll think about it. Not really comfortable pushing the car at non-drive height for extended periods of time because tire wear.

[Ranatsu]

Originally Posted by Jyn

Hm, might be too low now, but I'll think about it. Not really comfortable pushing the car at non-drive height for extended periods of time because tire wear.

as long as you don't have an obscene amount of toe then your tire wear will be no different than normal.. You could have 3 degrees of camber and have no more tire wear than if you had 0.
Toe is what gives abnormal tire wear. Because you're causing the tire to scrub in a direction it wasn't intended to travel.

[Turkish]

Sign me up as tentative, I have asked for the last week of January off, but may or may not actually have the 24th off.

[Jyn]

Originally Posted by Ranatsu

as long as you don't have an obscene amount of toe then your tire wear will be no different than normal.. You could have 3 degrees of camber and have no more tire wear than if you had 0.
Toe is what gives abnormal tire wear. Because you're causing the tire to scrub in a direction it wasn't intended to travel.

I'm on air, so raising my car up from regular drive height changes my alignment. I wouldn't be sure if I had toe from raising it up an inch or not.

[Extreme86]

January 24th Twisted Sisters Run - Weather Permitting or we'll reschedule.

1. Extreme86
2. AteMyShorts
3. weederr33 - maybe
4. Jyn - maybe
5. Turkish - maybe
6. zoth - gonna try
7. alv012 - tentative

[Extreme86]

Originally Posted by Turkish

Sign me up as tentative, I have asked for the last week of January off, but may or may not actually have the 24th off.

If we're rained or drizzled out on the 24th we'll try the 31st. In the past, January runs are pretty fun as nobody else is out there! Hope you can make it, Justin!

[zoth]

I'll try to make it.

[alv012]

Seeing as how:

1. I'm a newb to the SA 86 scene even though I've been here for a while
2. I might be moving back to Dallas at some point this year and will sorely miss the hill country
3. I want to really test out my new OFT Tune

I think there's no better time than now for me to come out and meet y'all.

Put me down as a tentative please (Grad school starts up again next week hoping I won't be too busy to come!)

[bimmer635csi]

Originally Posted by alv012

3. I want to really test out my new OFT Tune

Autocross this Sunday, if you really want to test it out.

Details are HERE.

[Ranatsu]

Originally Posted by Jyn

I'm on air, so raising my car up from regular drive height changes my alignment. I wouldn't be sure if I had toe from raising it up an inch or not.

Your front toe wouldn't change as they are completely independent of each other in the front. The rear however would change. I think the more negative camber you have the more toe in it gets.

[Jyn]

Originally Posted by Ranatsu

Your front toe wouldn't change as they are completely independent of each other in the front. The rear however would change. I think the more negative camber you have the more toe in it gets.

I see. I'll think about it, there's some pretty big road hazards on the run.

[Extreme86]

Originally Posted by Jyn

I see. I'll think about it, there's some pretty big road hazards on the run.

@Jyn RR336 has the cattle guards...after the 4th one or so they are not too bad. RR335 is the roller coaster run with about 4 or 5 good dips esp. when going fast. Bottom line is that lowered, you'd need to run quite a bit slower than those who push the envelope. Rule of thumb is faster drivers to the front and slower to the rear. Pretty sure we'll do a counter clockwise run and stop at 336 and 41 and then stop on the bridge on 335. We can wait for you to arrive at each of those spots before we take off again as you'll likely be heading up the rear a few minutes behind us when get get to those spots. Weather is the wildcard...if it is wet, we won't go. If it is dry and just cold, I'll be driving slower on curves anyway as my halfway worn down summer tires do not like cold weather at all! Dang PSS tires have been breaking loose on straight line acceleration on dry roads lately. (Parking lot drifting has been fun though.) Hope you can make it Jyn as twisties are fun regardless of the speed you drive them.

[AteMyShorts]

Tires the same here!

[Boosted]

Originally Posted by Jyn

I see. I'll think about it, there's some pretty big road hazards on the run.

How low are you? As stated above if slow down for cattle guards you will have no issues. For 335 and the roll or coaster if you stay under 65 should be fine, lowered on coiloversat bottom out at anything oer 70ish. Always fun throwing sparks from your exhaust scraping.

-Alex