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Maximum Motorsports
Caster/Camber Plates address the issues of obtaining proper
alignment, both static and dynamic, and achieving high performance
handling.
Obtaining
proper static alignment in your Mustang can be a challenge
even on a stock car, as some Mustangs have too much negative
camber at stock ride height (see illustration below). Excessive
negative camber causes increased wear on the inside edges of your
front tires. When you lower your Mustang, the camber becomes more
negative. Once the car is lowered, the factory camber adjustment
slots may not provide enough range of motion for reducing negative
camber to a point where your tires will wear evenly. The MM
Caster/Camber plates will provide the ability to set the camber to
stock specifications regardless of ride height. They also provide
a means of adjusting caster in order to accommodate individual
vehicle irregularities.
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alignment accuracy is the ability of your Mustang to maintain
its static alignment settings during hard cornering. This accuracy
is not possible with the stock rubber strut mounts because they
deflect, allowing the camber and caster settings to fluctuate,
which changes the effective toe setting. Any time the effective
toe setting changes it creates a steering input which is not
coming from the driver. When engineering our Caster/Camber plates,
we discovered that the only design which allows the necessary
strut top movement is a spherical bearing. The desired movement is
a strut top which swivels without moving side to side, while the
strut bottom is allowed to move in an arc.
Achieving
high performance handling requires alignment settings
different from the factory specifications. High performance
settings would be more negative camber and more positive caster.
More negative camber and more positive caster will help keep the
tire more upright during cornering, thereby maximizing the size of
the tire footprint on the ground. When cornering, body roll causes
an increase in positive camber, which pulls up the inside edge of
the front outside tire, reducing the effective size of the
tire’s footprint. More static negative camber counters this
effect. For example, if you have 1 degree of static negative
camber, and the camber moves 3 degrees due to body roll, you end
up with 2 degrees of dynamic positive camber. If you have 3
degrees of static negative camber, you’ll end up with 0 degrees
of dynamic camber – resulting in a larger tire footprint. Due to
the steering geometry in the front of the Mustang, just turning
the steering wheel will cause the camber of the outside front tire
to change, becoming more positive. This effect can be countered by
increasing the amount of caster. Enough positive caster (around 4
degrees in a Mustang) will cause the camber of the outside front
tire to become more negative while cornering
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