I'm going to start this with tracking, and going to use the mm scale, basically as that's what I use at work on my 4 wheel alignment stuff.
Basically the tracking setting on a T3 syncro depends on the trim height, so you need to find the trim height to be able to read off a chart what to set your tracking to, all well and good but every time I've done one of these the trim height has never been in the range that Autodata have supplied and the data has had to be projected and worked out. I thought it would be interesting to extrapolate some data working from what we have from Autodata, then, hopefully at the end we will have a useful table that we can all use to get your vehicles set up right.
I've tried messing about with the geometry, setting it to zero, bit of toe in, bit of toe out and had some quite scary results, I have had the most success by doing in my head what I talked about above, projecting the data to suit the application. It does work.
Why am i doing this? to make my life easier and quicker at work, and to be honest there have been some really dull threads on here lately and i just fancied something thats of actual use to you! plus with having 2 youths and being self employed I don't get time to come to any events anymore so I'm just trying to keep my hand in!
So, looking here at Autodata, er, data then we have a fairly limited range, what is interesting is that there is a different range for 14" syncro, and 16" syncro.
Now, correct me if I'm wrong but other than the size and offset of the rim and the different size tyres then there is no difference in the suspension other than a different damping rate, and the fact that the wheelbase is slightly longer 9and the fact that the ackerman principle will be a little messed up due to the rear axle being that little bit further back.
For some reason, the WYSIWYG editer is doing odd things, so I'm going to go away and come back shortly with some graphs and I'll put some data up and see if you agree with it...
