no1lowr
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Edited: 10/14/2009 12:50:33 AM by no1lowr
Untitled I think it’s very important as a pretty large part of the alignment of a vehicle. Depending on the vehicle being built and what you want it to do. The angle its being setup at depends on the size of the wheel and tire and how you want the vehicle to handle. Pretty much it will help the vehicle steer itself, it makes it easier for the vehicle to steer itself and react. if your building a trophy truck u might want there to be zero degrees of anti dive, because your going be jumping it and making turns the entire time on a closed course, and you don’t need it because you are going to be controlling the vehicle the entire time, not to mention its stronger! On any other kind of street vehicle, such as an air bagged custom or hot rod it helps it keep itself straight so it doesn’t walk all over when you hit a bump or are on an uneven road. If you were driving straight and u hit a bump, with zero degrees built into the suspension, its going want to jump all over the place and bump around, but with a few degrees it will just help keep itself straight. So overall in my opinion it’s very important and I agree, many people do overlook it, most of the time I’m sure it’s just because they aren’t aware of it. For example, on my FORD its been set up at about 5 degrees, this is just a ballpark and pretty much enough to either add or take away a bit, and this may change when we get to aligning it and figure out how the trucks going drive and handle itself, very important to the alignment of the vehicle overall and it should be set up for how you want the car to react when managing itself on the road. Just my 2 cents, hope I'm on the right track of what you’re asking…