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Old 01-20-2011, 07:29 PM
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996 Turbo "abnormal" Front Cross Camber

Hy , sorry for my bad English , i'm Italian from Milan.
My 996 TT X50 Package pull to the right so i went to the dealer for Alignment Set-up.
Now the car go fine and it go straight , no more right pull but i'm not very convince about new Alignment Specs.
Specs before (when the car pull to the right) was:
Front
Camber: Fl -0°24' Fr -0°28'
Caster: Fl +7°35' Fr +7°32'
Toe: Fl -0°04' Fr -0°05'
Rear
Camber: Rl -1°32' Rr -1°24'
Toe: Rl +0°17' Rr +0°15'

Specs after (Now when the car go straight) are:
Front
Camber: Fl -0°16' Fr -0°40'
Caster: Fl +7°35' Fr +7°32'
Toe: Fl +0°04' Fr +0°05'
Rear
Camber: Rl -1°34' Rr -1°22'
Toe: Rl +0°13' Rr +0°12'

Now , Front Cross Camber is 0°24' !!!! When OEM Specs says 0°20' MAX Tollerance!!!! Why the Dealer(PORSCHE) makes a CrossCamber Setup Disaccording with OEM Specs?
Ok now the car go straight and it seems work fine on Normal Road Driving , but can this new Set up with so much Front left/right camber gap cause bad and/or different reaction under Hard driving expecially in fast left and right corner ?
I go on the track only sometimes ,the car "tracking" good before ..Will be the same now with this new Set up?
What do you think about ?
And what are YOUR Alignment Set up ? (For Road driving ,NO Track)
I'm very interest to Know Your "Numbers".
Thank you very much , and sorry again for my English , i understand well enough but don't speak it very well.
 
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Old 01-20-2011, 09:03 PM
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Old 01-20-2011, 10:53 PM
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it would seem to me that if the car requires that kind of offset camber adjustment to go straight then the chassis or the wheel carrier is out of whack...plus you are going to go through right front tires much quicker than left fronts so be sure to rotate often...has the car ever been wrecked or had a bent wheel?
 
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Yes , unfortunately i had a crash on the track at Nordschleife in Germany. The crash was at Rear left with misalignment of the r/l wheel. Porsche technics had repair my car and changing all parts of the r/l suspension and they exclude damage interest chassis , but at this point i also think there's something wrong because is not normal the car needs this set up to go straight.
What's your camber set up front and rear for street use ?
To give you an idea of the damage i had ,i post a link with a crash like mine at min. 0.09'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J_YLgV9dnM&feature=channel
 
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for regular street -1 deg total front and -2 deg total rear....for agressive street probably around -1.5 degree total front (.75 deg each side) and -2.5 deg total rear (1.25 deg each side)...you don't have much camber at all now on the left front and I would think it would turn in very differently for lefties and righties and push badly on the righties the way it is set up...you should have the chassis checked...sure looks like it was tweaked by your impact and perhaps it can be corrected
 
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