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Old 04-26-2007, 05:38 PM
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An interesting discussion. I am not familiar with the use of 'drop spindles' in 116s, but assume it is to change the front roll centre and dynamic camber change - not sure if you are tring to raise or lower?

Can somebody give a quick outline of what is trying to be achieved with drop spindles?

In our 105 we used spacers under the top ball joint (also called knuckle risers) to give it more camber gain from a raised front roll centre (also gained droop travel which helps keep the inside wheel on the ground). That's all good, but it does introduce bump steer, which is not so nice (compromises....).

I am playing around with springs and bars on my GTV6 at the moment to make it a bit better on the track (but don't want to go super stiff out of respect for the shell and not wanting to make it awful on the road). So would be interested in things that work with relatively low rate springing.
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