How to know when your front tyres are totally shot!!

ianjpage · November 17, 2006, 04:10:28 PM

55starchief · November 17, 2006, 04:12:18 PM

Damn your front geometry must be a mile out, i would have a look and see if there is any accident damage as it might of had a front ender

ianjpage · November 17, 2006, 04:21:50 PM

Quoting: 55starchief

Damn your front geometry must be a mile out, i would have a look and see if there is any accident damage as it might of had a front ender

First thing i gunna do is get it fully aligned and checked!!

No front end mate, checked it out majorly before now

300bhp per ton · November 17, 2006, 04:38:22 PM

WOW that's some serious tread wear

Get that sucker aligned and lets go racing

philoldsmobile · November 17, 2006, 04:44:15 PM

wow, thats considerasbly further out than mine was, and i was toed out 3*!

its quite possible the car may have seen some drift action in japan, as they often set extreme ammounts of toe out for that...

55starchief · November 17, 2006, 04:49:16 PM

When i did pods fox body i set the camber at -1.5˚ and told him to set the toe out to +1˚ which should give him a nice quick turn in

philoldsmobile · November 17, 2006, 04:51:33 PM

i now have 1mm (0.3*?) toe in, and stock camber.. i believe its about 1*

seems to be holding up fine so far..

ianjpage · November 17, 2006, 04:55:52 PM

Quoting: 300bhp per ton

WOW that's some serious tread wear

Yeah and the back ones were replace about 6 month ago cos i turned them into total slick tyres hehehe

Quoting: 300bhp per ton

Get that sucker aligned and lets go racing

Quoting: philoldsmobile

wow, thats considerasbly further out than mine was, and i was toed out 3*!

Yeah indeed - wonder what it gunna be out by!

Quoting: philoldsmobile

i now have 1mm (0.3*?) toe ( i think) and stock camber.. i believe its about 1*

seems to be holding up fine so far..

Will get mine setup using the info the manual says:
-0.5˚ camber
+3.2˚ -> +3.4 caster
+0.12" or 1/4˚ toe in

55starchief · November 17, 2006, 04:56:25 PM

Quoting: philoldsmobile

i now have 1mm (0.3*?) toe in, and stock camber.. i believe its about 1*

seems to be holding up fine so far..

Pod wouldnt let me set his up with any more neg camber

i wanted to give it -2.5˚ man that would handle like a go kart

Roadkill · November 18, 2006, 07:36:52 AM

P'ah, Pu$$y !!

There's still a good 5,000 miles on them !!!

F Body · November 18, 2006, 10:44:04 AM

Quoting: ianjpage

and yes it is as bad as they look -

Jeeze Ian I know you like to get you moneys worth out of tyres but those are just plan lethal

Still probally not that much of an issue with it being a Mustang

Jo · November 18, 2006, 11:03:21 AM

My God Ian, glad your getting em replaced

Pod · November 18, 2006, 11:06:54 AM

Quoting: 55starchief

Pod wouldnt let me set his up with any more neg camber i wanted to give it -2.5˚ man that would handle like a go kart

Hehehehe.
-1.5 is plenty for the time being. I can always add more later now I've got the caster/camber plates.

For what it's worth, we put as much positive caster as it had space for.
Still haven't done the toe yet (or fit those sway bar end links

)
Haven't really driven the car much since then either.

55starchief · November 18, 2006, 11:13:09 AM

Quoting: Pod

Still haven't done the toe yet (or fit those sway bar end links )

Your not still using my custom ones are you

ianjpage · November 19, 2006, 04:09:14 PM

Quoting: Roadkill

P'ah, Pu$$y !!

There's still a good 5,000 miles on them !!!

Lol yeah but how many of them would be legal hehe

Quoting: F Body

Jeeze Ian I know you like to get you moneys worth out of tyres but those are just plan lethal

Still probally not that much of an issue with it being a Mustang

Yeah hence getting re replaced and the car being off the road once i found they as bad as they were!

Quoting: Podette

My God Ian, glad your getting em replaced

Yeah all done - just needs tracking sorting now

ianjpage · November 21, 2006, 05:16:05 PM

All tracked and sorted so we back and burning rubber hehehe

Feels sooo much better now so think the tracking been out since i got the car as handles way better!!

Titsy · November 21, 2006, 05:26:41 PM

Should yeald a better 1/4 mile time too....

ianjpage · November 21, 2006, 05:52:01 PM

hehe yeah we can but try

300bhp per ton · November 23, 2006, 06:48:19 AM

Quoting: ianjpage

All tracked and sorted so we back and burning rubber hehehe

Feels sooo much better now so think the tracking been out since i got the car as handles way better!!

Cool.

We'll have to set up that race sometime. One evening when it's not frosty or wet out would probably bode well.

Let me know :)

ianjpage · November 23, 2006, 08:15:52 AM

Quoting: 300bhp per ton

We'll have to set up that race sometime. One evening when it's not frosty or wet out would probably bode well.