Miata Mailing List: February 1995, Message #43
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   From: jmurphy@helix.nih.gov (Joe Murphy)
Subject: Re: AUTOX - Which front sway bar?
   Date: Wed, 1 Feb 1995 14:02:34 -0500

Doug Quara, On Jan 31, writes:

>As far as spinning the car out with oversteer, a couple of questions:
>What is your alignment setting?  What kind of tires were you on
>(stock or race compound)?  What tire pressures?  Did you do anything
>to invoke the spin?

The camber is -2.0 back, -1.5 front. A big part of the problem was my
driving and partly the Yokohama A008R 185/60s I had were bought used and
slowly turning to rock. I was running 32 psi front, 30 back - which worked
well. If I didn't adjust the rear pressures (to 30) over the course of the
3 runs the oversteer would be *MUCH* worse.

I now have new BFG 230 205/55s which should help. :-)


Joe

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