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Hi

I just brough some new adjustable castor rods for my R32 GTR and I was wondering what would be the best setting for them, as I want to inform the wheel alginment place when I take it down for an alignment? The car is only street driven.

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Fil

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You can never have too much caster on an R32/33/34. So the limitations are purely physical, drive shaft angle, upper control arm distortion (particularly on R32's) and the wheels hitting the back of the head lights. Around 4 degrees is probably the most you are going to get due to those factors.

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Gary

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